Besides shedding light on a previously unknown cataclysm, Dr Lave's work could plug a gap in the dominant explanation for why mountains stop growing, which is known as the " glacial buzzsaw" hypothesis.

除了揭示之前未知的大灾难之外，士的工还可以于山脉停止生长的解释空白处，即众所周知的“冰川电锯”假说。