Reply to van Hoesel et al.: Impact-related Younger Dryas boundary nanodiamonds from the Netherlands

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

Volumn 110, Issue 41, 2013, Pages

  Wittke, James H ^a   Bunch, Ted E ^a   Kennett, James P ^b   Kennett, Douglas J ^c   Culleton, Brendan J ^c   Tankersley, Kenneth B ^d   Daniel, I Randolph ^e   Kloosterman, Johan B ^f   Kletetschka, Gunther ^g,h   West, Allen ⁱ   Firestone, Richard B ^j  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Exploration Geologist   (Netherlands)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ GeoScience Consulting Dewey   (United States)

^j LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; NANODIAMOND;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; LETTER; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPRING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS;

EID: 84885364405     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313207110     Document Type: Letter

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