An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

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

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18155-18158

  Surovell, Todd A ^a   Holliday, Vance T ^b   Gingerich, Joseph A M ^a   Ketron, Caroline ^a   Haynes Jr , C Vance ^b   Hilman, Ilene ^a   Wagner, Daniel P ^c   Johnson, Eileen ^d   Claeys, Philippe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Geo Sci Consultants Inc   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clovis; Magnetic grains; Magnetic microspherules; Pleistocene extinctions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; GEOLOGICAL TIME; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70849114432     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907857106     Document Type: Article

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