Vocabulary II Flashcards
Catastrophism
the assumption that whatever happened in the past could have been impacted by cataclysmic/catastrophic events that accelerated current processes
Lithification
where sediment deposits are cemented together by pressure over time
GISP
Greenland ice sheet project
GRIP
North Greenland ice core project
Annual ice core layers
Ice core layers that include one winter season and one summer season
Sub-annual ice core layers
Ice core layers that can be several snowstorms during a particular year
YEC
Young Earth Creationists, believe in literal 24/7 Biblical Creation and catastrophism
OEC
Old Earth Creationists, believe in long Biblical Creation and Uniformitarianism
Uniformitarianism
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”