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catastrophism

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ca·tas·tro·phism  (k-tstr-fzm)
n.
1. Geology The doctrine that major changes in the earth's crust result from catastrophes rather than evolutionary processes.
2. The prediction or expectation of cataclysmic upheaval, as in political or social developments.
ca·tastro·phist n.
catastrophism
the theory that geological changes have been caused by sudden upheaval rather than by gradual and continuing processes. Cf. uniformitarianism. — catastrophist, n.
See also: Geology


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But though Kidd knew a great deal about Sir Claude--a great deal more, in fact, than there was to know-- it would never have crossed his wildest dreams to connect so showy an aristocrat with the newly-unearthed founder of Catastrophism, or to guess that Sir Claude Champion and John Boulnois could be intimate friends.
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