Geological history of Earth

thumb|Hutton's Unconformity at [[Jedburgh.Above: John Clerk of Eldin's 1787 illustration.Below: 2003 photograph.]] Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. It refers to invariance in the metaphysical principles underpinning science, such as the constancy of cause and effect throughout space-time, but has also been used to describe spatiotempora

possible upcoming scenarios for Earth

major geological occurrences in Earth's past

law stating that newer strata stack above older ones

timeline of the development of free oxygen in the Earth's seas and atmosphere

thumb|The Pale Orange Dot: an artist's interpretation of what the Earth may have looked like when haze built up in its atmosphere. A paleoatmosphere (or palaeoatmosphere) is an atmosphere, particularly that of Earth, at some unspecified time in the geological past.

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