Translation for 'catastrophism' from English to Russian

catastrophism

катастрофизм {м}геол.

• In this work he narrated the geological history of the West as a mixture of uniformitarianism and catastrophism.
• He was a proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism, and of the Peter Duesberg hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than HIV (see AIDS denialism).
• Leroy Ellenberger had become a vocal critic of Velikovskian catastrophism.
• One of the key differences between catastrophism and uniformitarianism is that uniformitarianism observes the existence of vast timelines, whereas catastrophism does not.
• Many individuals believed in catastrophism to allow room for religious beliefs.

• In linguistics, language change is seen as gradual, the product of chain reactions and subject to cyclic drift. The view that creole languages are the product of catastrophism is heavily disputed.
• The Shiva hypothesis, also known as coherent catastrophism, is the idea that global natural catastrophes on Earth, such as extinction events, happen at regular intervals because of the periodic motion of the Sun in relation to the Milky Way galaxy.
• As Byron himself notes in the preface to "Cain", Cain's vision in Act II was inspired by the theory of catastrophism.
• Charles Lyell may have lost the battle over progressionism to Darwinism, but through rhetoric he won a battle against catastrophism, which enabled his hypothesis of the uniformity of rate to become a textbook shibboleth.
• Comparatively, plutonism within uniformitarianism is equivalent to neptunism within catastrophism, as both are used as core concepts within their respective theories, and hence similarly, neptunism opposes plutonism in the same way that catastrophism opposes uniformitarianism.

• The discovery of fossils of extinct species was explained by theories such as catastrophism.
• De Filippi embraced transformism before discovering Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". He was an opponent of Georges Cuvier's catastrophism.
• Isaac Newton Vail (1840 – January 26, 1912) was an American Quaker, schoolteacher, and pseudoscientist supporting the theory of catastrophism. His ideas were taken up by creationists.
• The novel entwines the genres of dystopia and catastrophism.
• Hsu criticized Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. The book endorses catastrophism and non-Darwinian evolution.

• During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a controversy exported from geology, between supporters of James Hutton (uniformitarianism thesis) and Georges Cuvier (catastrophism) strongly influenced the field of geography, because geography at this time was a natural science.