Vocabulary II Flashcards

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Catastrophism

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the assumption that whatever happened in the past could have been impacted by cataclysmic/catastrophic events that accelerated current processes

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Lithification

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where sediment deposits are cemented together by pressure over time

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GISP

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Greenland ice sheet project

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GRIP

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North Greenland ice core project

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Annual ice core layers

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Ice core layers that include one winter season and one summer season

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Sub-annual ice core layers

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Ice core layers that can be several snowstorms during a particular year

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YEC

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Young Earth Creationists, believe in literal 24/7 Biblical Creation and catastrophism

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OEC

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Old Earth Creationists, believe in long Biblical Creation and Uniformitarianism

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Uniformitarianism

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the assumption that whatever events are happening on the earth now, at its present rate, has always happened in the past at that rate “The present is the key to the past”

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