Question

Which example is an application of the principle of uniformitarianism?

A. Using records of flood patterns to predict furture flooding.

B. Identifying minerals based on streak, color, and hardness

C. Measuring the intensity of an earthquake.

Answer 1

its C

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_geologic_processes_did_James_Hutton_observe_in_developing_the_principle_of_uniformitarianism?#slide=2

Answer 2

sorry @KittyT u are wrong
the answer is A. Using records of flood patterns to predict furture flooding.

Answer 3

confused ~.~

Answer 4

In the mid-seventeenth century, biblical scholar and Archbishop James Ussher determined that the earth had been created in the year 4004 BCE. Just over a century later James Hutton, known as the father of geology, suggested that the earth was much older and that processes occurring in the present were the same processes that had operated in the past, and would be the processes that operate in the future.

This concept became known as uniformitarianism and can be summarized by the phrase "the present is the key to the past." It was a direct rejection of the prevalent theory of the time, catastrophism, which held that only violent disasters could modify the surface of the earth. Today, we hold uniformitarianism to be true and know that great disasters such as earthquakes, asteroids, volcanoes, and floods are part of the regular cycle of the earth.

Answer 5

according to @sreekar369 my answer is right
A. Using records of flood patterns to predict furture flooding.