The principle of uniformitarianism

a. stated that the geological processes that operated in the past are still occurring in the present.
b. was a problem for the development of evolutionary theories.
c. proposed that the earth was only a few thousand years old.
d. was the same as the theory of catastrophism.
e. was first proposed by Georges Cuvier.


a

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