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May Quotes by D. V. Ager
- Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
- Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section.…
- Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the…
- It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the…
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