Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13,000 Years Ago Science Daily, Dec. 14, 2009) — An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas approximately 13,000 years ago.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132734.htm The paper is: Paquay, F. S. G. Ravizza, S. Goderis, P. Claeys, S. Goderis, F. Vanhaeck, M. Boyd, T. A. Surovell, V. T. Holliday, and C. V. Haynes, Jr., 2009, Absence of geochemical evidence for an impact event at the Bølling–Allerød/Younger Dryas transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Published online before print December 10, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0908874106 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/09/0908874106 http://www.pnas.org/search?fulltext=Pleistocene+extinction&sortspec=date&submit=Submit&andorexactfulltext=phrase Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
