Toward 2050: the past is not the key to the future - challenges for the science of geochemistry

Fyfe, W. S.

doi:10.1007/s002540050228

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“…The uniqueness of the present, relative to the entirety of earth history, could present a challenge in extending uniformitarian ideas to the future, the Canadian geochemist William Fyfe declaring that 'the past is not the key to the future' (Fyfe, 1998). The complete hegemony of a single species has never been recorded in geological time; geologists are increasingly facing more unusual situations and are losing standard points of reference.…”

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