| Catastrophists warn that global climate change will result in increased frequency and severity of storms and a rapid rise in sea levels. |
| Leading catastrophists such as them promoted the so-called diluvial theory, which accounted for many geological phenomena by the action of the biblical flood. |
| He examined the site to learn about floods and mountain formation, thus drawing the event into a debate between gradualists and catastrophists. |
| But they believed that much of the geological record was formed quickly and catastrophically, as the early nineteenth-century catastrophists had believed. |
| Lyell had been threatening to publish a book on the geological history of Man, which was to be a bomb-shell flung into the camp of the catastrophists. |
| Catastrophists claimed massive, sudden and violent events caused geological changes. |
