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“[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct summation of the totality of all experimental and observational evidence.”

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M. King Hubbert

M. King Hubbert, born on October 5, 1903 and died on October 11, 1989, was an American geologist and mathematician renowned for his contributions to the field of petroleum geology. more

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