Uniformitarianism assumes that
A) mountains, plains, and canyons formed by catastrophic events.
B) catastrophic episodes have regularly occurred.
C) the same physical processes we see today are a key to understanding the processes that have been operating throughout geologic time.
D) Earth is quite young and is shaped by dramatic events.
C
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