Hello Folks, Sky & Tel, Sep 2009, pp. 20-25, Ice Age Impact: Did a comet wipe out early North Americans and the huge beasts they hunted? (by Ivan Semeniuk)
If you don't have a S & T subscription but are interested in finding out what may have happened about 13,000 years ago, you should soon get your copy on your newsstand: - So says Shakespeare's Macbeth - Demise of the megbeasts - Where's the crater? - Will diamonds tell the tale? In Ivan Semeniuk's article you'll meet and listen to scientists and meteoriticists whose names most of us are familiar with: Allen West, James Kennett, Mark Boslough, Ted Bunch, Clark Chapman and you'll read about the Columbian mammoth, about saber-toothed cats, about the Clovis people, about a possible smoking gun (the so-called "dark mat", a dark layer in sedimentary rock in Murray Springs, Arizona), about elevated iridium levels, fullerene molecules, hexagonal nanodiamonds, and much more. I really enjoyed that article and it is definitely a must-read! Cheers from Germany, Bernd ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
