A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay.

A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay.

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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) posits that ~12,800 years ago Earth encountered the debris stream of a disintegrating comet, triggering hemisphere-wide airbursts, atmospheric dust loading, and the deposition of a distinctive suite of extraterrestrial (ET) impact proxies at the Younger Dry...

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Main Authors: Christopher R Moore, Vladimir A Tselmovich, Malcolm A LeCompte, Allen West, Stephen J Culver, David J Mallinson, Mohammed Baalousha, James P Kennett, William M Napier, Michael Bizimis, Victor Adedeji, Seth R Sutton, Gunther Kletetschka, Kurt A Langworthy, Jesus P Perez, Timothy Witwer, Marc D Young, Mahbub Alam, Jordan Jeffreys, Richard C Greenwood, James A Malley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328347
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