Research work · 2005

Event or catastrophe in biogeosciences

Claude Babin

Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France

Abstract

Abstract Catastrophism is back again into the biogeosciences since the recent hypotheses regarding the mass extinctions but its use has led to some immoderate language. So it would be better to use, according to H. Tintant, the word event. Catastrophe and catastrophism have an anthropocentric echo which doesn’t fit in with the scientific vocabulary.

DOI: 10.2113/176.2.215