Valleys were not the work of giant floods but the slow grinding force of wind and water. Uniform Processes of Change. Lyell's version of geology came to be known as uniformitarianism, because of his fierce insistence that the processes that alter the Earth are uniform through time. Like Hutton, Lyell viewed the history of Earth as being vast and directionless.
The standard long jump runway should be at least 40 meters, or 131  feet in length. The take off board should be at least 1 meter, or 3  feet, and the sand landing area shou â¦ ld be at least 2.75 meters, or  9 feet.
1 The pole vault runway must be at least 40m long. 2  The box at the end of the runway (where the pole is planted) is 3ft, 3in long, 8in at the deepest, and narrows to 6in wide at the bottom. 3  Uprights can be adjusted, according to athlete preference, up to 0.80m behind the box. The takeoff board is 20cm long, including a soft strip at the back that will show impressions on foul jumps. 2  The landing pit is filled with sand and must be at least 9m long and 2.75m wide. 3  The sand in the pit should be washed river sand or pure quartz sand so that it does not harden when wet.