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The 16 pages that link to Catastrophism, each with the reason it gives.

• ExtinctionCompared with: It opposed gradual accounts of Earth's history and influenced early explanations of fossil disappearances.

• UniformitarianismCompared with: It contrasts with uniformitarianism’s emphasis on processes familiar from the present.

• GradualismCompared with: It emphasizes abrupt events where gradualism emphasizes cumulative processes.

• GeologyCompared with: It contrasts with gradual-process explanations that became influential in geology.

• ApocalypticismCompared with: Catastrophism describes abrupt change without necessarily assigning it divine purpose or moral judgment.

• Rock cycleCompared with: Catastrophic events can rapidly alter landscapes and disrupt gradual cycle sequences.

• History of geologyCompared with: Its emphasis on abrupt change contested gradualist interpretations of the rock record.

• James Dwight DanaCompared with: Dana’s gradual geological explanations differed from accounts centered on catastrophic change.

• Victorian scienceCompared with: Its dramatic events contrasted with gradual geological explanations influential in Victorian science.

• Abraham Gottlob WernerCompared with: Its emphasis on episodic change differs from Werner’s ordered history of oceanic deposition.

• Glacial Lake MissoulaCompared with: The lake's immense outbursts became powerful evidence for catastrophic landscape change.

• Historical geologyCompared with: It contrasts with accounts that emphasize slow processes, while remaining compatible with evidence for both.