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The 29 pages that link to Uniformitarianism, each with the reason it gives.

• PaleobiologyRelated: It supports interpretations of ancient environments from modern geological processes.

• Georges CuvierCompared with: This gradualist framework differs from Cuvier’s emphasis on abrupt biological upheavals.

• Charles LyellRelated: Lyell made this principle central to geology, while allowing that process rates and intensities could vary.

• GradualismRelated: Its history is closely tied to the rise of geological gradualism.

• James HuttonRelated: Hutton used present-day processes to infer how rocks and landscapes formed over deep time.

• GeologyRelated: It supplied a method for inferring ancient processes from present-day evidence.

• Deep timeRelated: It supports reconstructing ancient environments from processes still observable now.

• Experimental archaeologyRelated: Experiments rely on continuity between past and present processes, while historical conditions may differ.

• CatastrophismCompared with: It directly opposed catastrophism’s emphasis on exceptional, large-scale events.

• Rock cycleRelated: It supports reconstructing ancient cycle pathways from processes active now.

• Punctuated equilibriumCompared with: The model’s rapid episodes are sometimes mistaken for rejecting uniformity in geological processes.

• Walter AlvarezCompared with: The impact proposal renewed debate over gradual processes versus rare catastrophic events.

• Missoula floodsCompared with: Bretz’s catastrophic floods challenged gradual interpretations, though they relied on familiar erosion processes at exceptional scale.

• History of geologyRelated: It framed geological history as an inference from present processes.

• James Dwight DanaRelated: This principle informed Dana’s explanations of long-term changes to Earth.

• NeptunismRelated: It offered a process-based alternative to Neptunism’s single primordial ocean history.

• PaleoenvironmentRelated: Applying modern analogues can clarify ancient conditions, but past systems may lack exact modern counterparts.

• Victorian scienceRelated: It offered a gradualist account of Earth’s history against appeals to sudden catastrophes.

• Abraham Gottlob WernerCompared with: Hutton’s gradual-process account offered an alternative to Werner’s global ocean and fixed sequence.

• Channeled ScablandsCompared with: Bretz’s flood hypothesis challenged interpretations that relied on ordinary, gradual stream erosion.

• History of lifeRelated: It shaped how scientists inferred the long processes recorded by rocks and fossils.

• Glacial Lake MissoulaCompared with: Bretz's flood interpretation challenged gradualist explanations of the Scablands.

• Historical geologyRelated: It provides a basis for interpreting ancient evidence through present-day processes.

• Archibald GeikieRelated: Geikie used present-day processes to explain the formation of ancient landscapes.

• Geological history of EarthRelated: It guides interpretations of ancient features using known Earth processes.

• Philip Henry GosseCompared with: Its evidence for an ancient Earth sharpened the problem Gosse addressed in Omphalos.

• William Morris DavisRelated: Davis applied modern erosional processes to reconstruct the histories of landscapes.

• Nicolas DesmarestRelated: Desmarest’s inference from present-day lava to ancient basalt exemplified this style of geological reasoning.

• Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinRelated: Chamberlin used present-day processes to interpret ancient geological records.