De Grazia became interested in Immanuel Velikovsky's catastrophist theories. In the field of geology, Razumovsky has been described as an "non-actualistic catastrophist". Not all scientific studies have agreed with the catastrophist interpretation of this event. It was his third novel, "The Catastrophist", that brought him into the public eye. "The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist" is widely considered to be the band's most seminal work. Caton was an evolutionist skeptical of Darwinian mechanisms, and was also a catastrophist. The Catastrophist is a studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. Filled with zeal for science, he studied catastrophist geology with Adam Sedgwick.