The new battle became an argument between catastrophism and uniformitarianism.

新的战斗变成主义和均变主义之间的争论。

The old slow and steady idea called uniformitarianism now stood alongside a new idea called catastrophism, where rapid and violent events could sometimes shape Earth's geology in ways that slower processes couldn't explain.

被称为均变论的旧缓慢而稳定的想法现在与称为论的新想法并驾，中快速而剧烈的事件有时会以较慢的过程，无法解释的方式塑造地球地质。