Question

(a) “Present is the key to the past."
Explain the concept in the light of
reconstruction of past earth history,​

Answer 1

Answer:

The idea that the same natural laws and processes that operate on Earth today have operated in the past is an assumption many geologists use in order to better understand the geologic past. ... This idea is known as uniformitarianism, also defined as “the present is the key to the past”