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A Microbial Link to Weathering of Postglacial Rocks and Sediments, Mount Viso Area, Western Alps, Demonstrated through Analysis of a Soil/Paleosol Bio/Chronosequence

2016 scholarly article by Mahaney et al.

A New Method for Producing Nanodiamonds Based on Research Into the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1470 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea ⬇️

scholarly article

A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom ⬇️

2021 The Conversation news article by Christopher R. Moore

A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada, and evidence for an extraterrestrial event

scholarly article

A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada: Response to comments by Breslawski et al., Quaternary Research Volume 94, 210–211 ⬇️

scientific article

Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 1: Shock-fractured quartz grains support 12,800-year-old cosmic airburst at the Younger Dryas onset

scientific article published in 2023

Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 2: Additional evidence supporting the catastrophic destruction of this prehistoric village by a cosmic airburst ~12,800 years ago

scientific article published in 2023

Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 3: Comet airbursts triggered major climate change 12,800 years ago that initiated the transition to agriculture

scientific article published in 2023

Analysis of the Younger Dryas Impact layer

article by Richard Firestone et al.

Are Nanodiamonds Evidence for a Younger Dryas Impact Event? ⬇️

abstract PP33B-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea ⬇️

correction to a paper by Bunch et al. 2021

Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835-12,735 Cal B.P. for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents ⬇️

scholarly article

Biostratigraphic Evidence Relating to the Age-Old Question of Hannibal's Invasion of Italy, I: History and Geological Reconstruction

article

Biostratigraphic Evidence Relating to the Age-Old Question of Hannibal's Invasion of Italy, II: Chemical Biomarkers and Microbial Signatures

article

Biostratigraphic evidence supports Paleoindian population disruption at approximately 12.9 ka. ⬇️

scholarly article

Brief Overview of the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact Datum Layer 12,800 Years Ago and Its Archaeological Utility

chapter of Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Comment: Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims ⬇️

comment from Firestone and West about the paper "Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims"

Confirmation of the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) data at Murray Springs, AZ. ⬇️

scholarly article

Contribution to the Evidences of an Interhemispheric Cosmic Impact During the Younger Dryas. Distinctive Proxies from Central and South Mexico ⬇️

abstract #3031 for the 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA 2019)

Cosmic Airburst on Developing Allerød Substrates (Soils) in the Western Alps, Mt. Viso Area ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Discovery of a nanodiamond-rich layer in the Greenland ice sheet ⬇️

scholarly article

Elemental Analysis of the Sediment, Magnetic Grains and Microspherules from the Younger Dryas Impact Layer ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1472 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Environmental and biotic change at the nanodiamond datum: The Younger Dryas boundary impact hypothesis

an abstract for the 25th Pacific Climate Workshop, 2011

Evaluation of magnetic microspherules and elemental data from pre-Younger Dryas to recent age deposits at Squires Ridge (31ED365), Tar River, North Carolina

article by Christopher Moore et al. about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Evidence for Widespread Biomass-Burning at the Younger Dryas Boundary at 12.9 ka ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1397 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Evidence for a Massive Extraterrestrial Airburst over North America 12.9 ka Ago ⬇️

abstract PP41A-01 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Evidence for an Extraterrestrial Impact Event 12,900 years ago that Contributed to Megafaunal Extinctions and the Younger Dryas Cooling ⬇️

abstract PP43A-01 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Evidence for an Extraterrestrial Impact Origin of the Carolina Bays on the Atlantic Coast of North America ⬇️

abstract PP42A-05 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling ⬇️

journal article published in 2007

Evidence for cosmic airburst in the Western Alps archived in Late Glacial paleosols

scholarly article

Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago ⬇️

scholarly article

Evidence from Pilauco, Chile Suggests a Catastrophic Cosmic Impact Occurred Near the Site ∼12,800 Years Ago

Evidence from central Mexico supporting the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis ⬇️

scholarly article

Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C ⬇️

scholarly article

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 1. Ice Cores and Glaciers

article

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 2. Lake, Marine, and Terrestrial Sediments ⬇️

article

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago: A Reply

scholarly article

Extraterrestrial Markers Found at Clovis Sites Across North America ⬇️

abstract PP41A-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Five Younger Dryas black mats in Mexico and their stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental context

scholarly article

Geochemical data reported by Paquay et al. do not refute Younger Dryas impact event ⬇️

scholarly article

Hexagonal Diamonds (Lonsdaleite) Discovered in the K/T Impact Layer in Spain and New Zealand ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1476 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Human Population Decline in North America during the Younger Dryas ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1382 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Impact-Shocked diamonds, Abrupt Ecosystem Disruption, and Mammoth Extinction on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Allerod-Younger Dryas Boundary (13.0-12.9 ka) ⬇️

abstract PP23D-04 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Impact-related microspherules in Late Pleistocene Alaskan and Yukon "muck" deposits signify recurrent episodes of catastrophic emplacement

scholarly article

Is There Evidence for Impact-Triggered Fires at the End Pleistocene? ⬇️

abstract PP43A-03 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Magnetism of microspheres from the proposed Younger Dryas Impact event 12,900 years ago ⬇️

abstract #1719 from the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Melt spherules from Peter's Pond, a Carolina Bay, South Carolina

abstract from the 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society

Method for finding grains created by lightning discharge from the Younger Dryas Boundary layer ⬇️

abstract from the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012

Micrometeorite Impacts in Beringian Mammoth Tusks and a Bison Skull

abstract #U23A-0865 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007

Microstructures in shocked quartz: linking nuclear airbursts and meteorite impacts ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

Mineralogical and Noble Gas Evidence for an ET Impact at the Younger Dryas ⬇️

abstract PP41A-04 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Multiple lines of evidence for possible Human population decline/settlement reorganization during the early Younger Dryas

scholarly article

Nanodiamond-rich layer across three continents consistent with major cosmic impact at 12,800 cal BP ⬇️

journal article published in 2014

Nanodiamonds and Carbon Spherules from Tunguska, the K/T Boundary, and the Younger Dryas Boundary Layer ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1392 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Nanodiamonds as evidence for a Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact event

abstract from Quaternary International

Nanodiamonds in a Stratigraphic Datum Layer Correlated with the Continent-Wide Younger Dryas Impact Stratum (YDB) at 12.9 ka ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1473 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas boundary sediment layer

journal article published in 2009

New Evidence from a Black Mat Site in the Northern Andes Supporting a Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago

2013 scientific article by William Mahaney et al.

New Physical Evidence for a Cosmic Impact with the Earth at 12.9 ka

poster for the The American Quaternary Association Conference 2010

New method to produce nanodiamonds from research into the Younger Dryas Impact event

abstract from the American Quaternary Association

Non-magnetic Iron rich microspherules from Younger Dryas Boundary layer ⬇️

abstract from the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2013

Organic composition of Younger Dryas black mat ⬇️

Platinum and microspherule peaks as chronostratigraphic markers for onset of the Younger Dryas at Wakulla Springs, Florida ⬇️

2023 paper from Moore et al.

Potential Consequences of the YDB Cosmic Impact at 12.8 kya

chapter in "Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain"

Presence of all Three Allotropes of Impact-Diamonds in the Younger Dryas Onset Layer (YDB) Across N America and NW Europe ⬇️

abstract PP23D-01 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Recent developments in the analysis of the black mat layer and cosmic impact at 12.8 ka

Reconnaissance of the Hannibalic Route in the Upper Po Valley, Italy: Correlation with Biostratigraphic Historical Archaeological Evidence in the Upper Guil Valley, France

article

Reply to Blaauw et al., Boslough, Daulton, Gill et al., and Hardiman et al.: Younger Dryas impact proxies in Lake Cuitzeo, Mexico. ⬇️

scholarly article

Reply to Boslough et al.: Decades of comet research counter their claims ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 5 November 2013)

Reply to Holliday and Boslough et al.: Synchroneity of widespread Bayesian-modeled ages supports Younger Dryas impact hypothesis ⬇️

scholarly article

Reply to Ives and Froese: Regarding the impact-related Younger Dryas boundary layer at Chobot site, Alberta, Canada. ⬇️

scientific article published on October 2013

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

scholarly article

Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a Platinum Anomaly, Pyrogenic Carbon Peak, and Coprophilous Spore Decline at 12.8 ka ⬇️

scholarly article

Sedimentary record from Patagonia, southern Chile supports cosmic-impact triggering of biomass burning, climate change, and megafaunal extinctions at 12.8 ka

scholarly article

Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments ⬇️

journal article published in 2009

Soil Composition Inside the Possible Crater in Bolivia, Iturralde: Material Implying Impact Event of Low Density Meteorite ⬇️

abstract #1705 for the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013)

Soot as Evidence for Widespread Fires at the Younger Dryas Onset (YDB; 12.9 ka) ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1471 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Summary of impact markers and potential impact mechanisms for the YDB impact event at 12.9 ka ⬇️

abstract PP33B-10 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Testing Younger Dryas ET Impact (YDB) Evidence at Hall's Cave, Texas ⬇️

abstract PP33B-08 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture

book by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture

paperback edition of a book by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

The End Pleistocene Extinction Event - What Caused It? ⬇️

abstract PP41A-03 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

The platinum group metals in Younger Dryas Horizons are terrestrial ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1389 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Triggering of the Younger Dryas Cooling by Extraterrestrial Impact ⬇️

abstract PP41A-05 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago ⬇️

scholarly article

Weathering rinds as mirror images of palaeosols: examples from the Western Alps with correlation to Antarctica and Mars

scholarly article

Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences ⬇️

scholarly article

Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences consistent with Greenland ice core data ⬇️

abstract 31-6 for the 66th Southeastern Section annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, 2017

Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød–Younger Dryas boundary (13.0–12.9ka)

scholarly article

Wildfires, Soot and Fullerenes in the 12,900 ka Younger Dryas boundary layer in North America ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1393 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

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