Cosmogenic nuclide enhancement via deposition from long-period comets as a test of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 377-378, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-61

  Overholt, Andrew C ^a,b   Melott, Adrian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MidAmerica Nazarene University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolide; Comet; Cosmogenic radionuclides; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

BOLIDE; COMET; COSMIC RAY FLUX; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DIRECT DEPOSITION; LONG-PERIOD COMETS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

COSMIC RAYS; DEPOSITION; ISOTOPES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BOLIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMET; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEPOSITION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE CORE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EID: 84882966575     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.029     Document Type: Article

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