Discuss the concept of geologic time and uniformitarianism. What is the geologic time scale? What will be an ideal response?


The student should discuss the theory of uniformitarianism, based on the premise that presentday
processes have operated throughout geologic time. An important part of this discussion is
the recognition that geologic time is very long, extending over billions of years. The student
should recognize that geologic events occur on a variety of time scales from microseconds to
millions and billions of years.

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