What was Hutton's proposition about geological features?
They are static
They change rapidly
They remain the same over time
They undergo change over long periods
Answer
Hutton proposed that geological features undergo change over long periods of time, a theory that became known as uniformitarianism. He believed that the Earth was much older than the few thousand years that was commonly believed at the time, and that the geological features that we see today were formed by the slow, gradual accumulation of small changes over millions of years.
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