IMPACTTECTONICS.ORG BLOG Rev. 2022-12-21
Gregory Charles Herman,
PhD
Flemington, New Jersey, USA
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Stephen Jay Gould's and Nile Eldredge's remarkable theory of punctuated
equilibrium; that biological evolution on Earth is marked by isolated episodes
of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change, is a more
appropriate theoretical model with regard to Earthly tectonics than
uniformitarianism, the current guiding principle of geology.