Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 12623-12628

  Kennett, Douglas J ^a   Kennett, James P ^b   West, Allen ^c   West, G James ^d   Bunch, Ted E ^e   Culletona, Brendan J ^a   Erlandson, Jon M ^a   Que Hee, Shane S ^f   Johnson, John R ^g   Mercer, Chris ^h,i   Shen, Feng ^j   Sellers, Marilee ^e   Stafford Jr , Thomas W ^k   Stich, Adrienne ^l   Weaver, James C ^m   Wittke, James H ^e   Wolbach, Wendy S ^a,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GeoScience Consulting Dewey   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

ⁱ University of California   (United States)

^j Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^k Stafford Research Laboratories   (United States)

^l DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m University of California Riverside   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arlington Canyon; Biomass burning; Cosmic impact; Hexagonal nanodiamonds; Megafaunal extinctions

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHARCOAL; DIAMOND;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BASIN GROUPS; BIOMASS; CRETACEOUS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAUNA; FLOW RATE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORTH AMERICA; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOOT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYNTHESIS; TERTIARY (PERIOD); UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WASTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMUTHUS; SPHERULES;

BIOMASS; DIAMOND; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 69149089537     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906374106     Document Type: Article

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