Accumulation of impact markers in desert wetlands and implications for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

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

Volumn 109, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7208-7212

  Pigati, Jeffrey S ^a   Latorre, Claudio ^b,c   Rech, Jason A ^d   Betancourt, Julio L ^a   Martínez, Katherine E ^b   Budahn, James R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; MAGNETITE; MARKER;

ARTICLE; CHILE; DESERT; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPLOSION; HYPOTHESIS; MARSH; MASS EXTINCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHILE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DESERT CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; HUMANS; IRIDIUM; MAGNETS; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

SPHERULES;

EID: 84860826469     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200296109     Document Type: Article

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