GK
GENERAL SCIENCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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uniformitarianism
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catastrophism
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fossils such as the T-Rex bone that contains soft tissue are hard to understand in the uniformitarian framework. 3. Fossil graveyards with fossils from many different climates are hard to understand in the uniformitarian view.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to uniformitarianism, fossils are formed over a period of centuries via gradual processes, such as sedimentation. Today, geologists accept this explanation for the formation of many fossils. However, they also know that some fossils were also formed via catastrophic events.
Detailed explanation-3: -Even so, scientists have found intact soft tissue in dinosaur bones before. The most famous case dates to 2005 when Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.