In the days when the uniformitarians triumphantly fought against the catastrophists, it was apparently thought by the leaders of the rising school that the ebb and flow of the oceanic water had been going on indefinitely all over the surface of our planet for an untold length of time. Beyond this, little was then In the days when the uniformitarians triumphantly fought against the catastrophists, it was apparently thought by the leaders of the rising school that the ebb and flow of the oceanic water had been going on indefinitely all over the surface of our planet for an untold length of time Beyond this, little was then