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Line 4: {{cite journal \|last1= Turney \|first= C.S.M. \|last2= Brown \|first2= H. \|year= 2007 \|title= Catastrophic early Holocene sea level rise, human migration and the Neolithic transition in Europe \|journal= [[Quaternary Science Reviews]] \|volume=26 \|pages=2036–2041 \|bibcode= 2007QSRv...26.2036T \|doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.07.003 \|issue=17–18}}</ref> This contrasts with [[uniformitarianism ~~(science)~~\| uniformitarianism]] (sometimes called [[gradualism]]), according to which slow incremental changes, such as [[erosion]], brought about all the Earth's [[geology\| geological]] features. The proponents of uniformitarianism held that the present was "the key to the past", and that all geological processes (such as [[erosion]]) throughout the past resembled those that can be observed today. Since the 19th-century disputes between catastrophists and uniformitarians, a more inclusive and integrated view of geologic events has developed, in which the [[scientific consensus]] accepts that some catastrophic events occurred in the geologic past, but regards these as explicable as extreme examples of natural processes which can occur. Proponents of catastrophism proposed that each [[geological epoch]] ended with violent and sudden natural catastrophes such as major [[flood]]s and the rapid [[orogeny\| formation of major mountain chains]]. Plants and animals living in the parts of the world where such events occurred [[extinction\| became extinct]], to be replaced abruptly by the new forms whose fossils defined the geological strata. Some catastrophists attempted to relate at least one such change to the [[Biblical]] account of [[Noah's flood]].

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