Sir Charles said not a word; he let the paragraph stand; and Adams never knew whether the great Uniformitarian was strict or lax in his uniformitarian creed; but he doubted.
A few thousand feet, more or less, of limestone were the liveliest amusement to the ganoid, but they buried the uniformitarian alive, under the weight of his own uniformity.
He was ignorant enough to think that the glacial epoch looked like a chasm between him and a uniformitarian world.
We have said that Darwin's hypothesis is the natural complement to Lyell's uniformitarian theory in physical geology.
No one can doubt that the influence of uniformitarian views has been enormous, and, in the main, most beneficial and favourable to the progress of sound geology.
And if he is not, in what sense has this part of the uniformitarian doctrine, as he defines it, lowered its pretensions to represent scientific truth?
We have said that Darwins hypothesis is the natural complement to Lyells uniformitarian theory in physical geology.
In 1832, the year after young Darwin set out upon his cruise, Lyell published the first edition of his 'Principles of Geology,' establishing once for all the uniformitarian concept of that branch of science.
It was slowly digesting Lyell's 'Principles of Geology,' in which the old cataclysmic theories were featly demolished, and the uniformitarian conception of a past gradually and insensibly merging into the present was conclusively established.
Lyell's uniformitarian views of the earth's history and of the agencies which had wrought its changes, had undoubted effect in educating men's minds for the acceptance of essentially similar views regarding the organic world.
The uniformitarian teaching which Lyell deduced from geological observation had gained acceptance.
But, of course, theuniformitarian faith permitted no such explanation, nor could it countenance the projection idea; so Lyell was bound to find some other means of transportation for the puzzling erratics.
The following passage of the preface indeed, in which De Maillet is supposed to speak of the Indian philosopher Telliamed, his alter ego, might have been written by the most philosophical uniformitarian of the present day.
A few, like MacCulloch, undervalued palaeontological research, and thus were doubly prejudiced against the uniformitarian views.
They appear to have kept up communication with Lyell, who hears with satisfaction of the results of their work, since these cannot fail to keep Murchison sound in the Uniformitarian faith and to complete the conversion of Sedgwick.
He was the forerunner of Lyell and of the uniformitarian school of geologists.
And here Lamarck, in spite of his uniformitarian principles, is strongly cataclysmic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uniformitarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
