( n. )
One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.
( n. )
One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012