Wernerians thought strata were deposits from shrinking seas, but James Hutton proposed a self-maintaining infinite cycle, anticipating uniformitarianism.
The old slow and steady idea called uniformitarianism now stood alongside a new idea called catastrophism, where rapid and violent events could sometimes shape Earth's geology in ways that slower processes couldn't explain.
其特征、将今论古说。
普 
的海洋的沉积物，但詹姆斯•赫顿提出了一个自
的无限周期，促进了地质均变论的发展。
陈旧缓
而稳定
论
程，无法解释
