Search filters

List of works by Theodore E. Bunch

A Terrestrial Analog for Carbonates in ALH 84001: Ankerite-Magnesite Carbonates in Mantle Xenoliths and Basalts from Spitsbergen (Svalbard), Norway

conference paper published in 1998

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 simple device for the preparation of embedded materials science specimens for ultramicrotomy

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

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

Are Nanodiamonds Evidence for a Younger Dryas Impact Event?

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

Are some chondrule rims formed by impact processes? Observations and experiments

scientific article published in January 1991

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

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

Carbonaceous chondrites—II. Carbonaceous chondrite phyllosilicates and light element geochemistry as indicators of parent body processes and surface conditions

scientific article

Carbonaceous matter in the rocks of the Sudbury Basin, Ontario, Canada

scientific article published in 1999

Carbonate "Rosettes" in Xenoliths from Spitzbergen: SIMS Analysis of O and C Isotope Ratios in a Potential Terrestrial Analogue to Martian Meteorite ALH84001

abstract #2032 for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference #30

Carbonate Globules from Spitsbergen, Norway: Terrestrial Analogs of the Carbonates in Martian Meteorite ALH84001?

conference paper

Carbonate Globules, Analogous to Those in ALH84001, from Spitzbergen, Norway: Formation in a Hydrothermal Environment

abstract #1683 for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference #30

Chromite composition in relation to chemistry and texture of ordinary chondrites

scholarly article

Coesite Discoveries Establish Cryptovolcanics as Fossil Meterorite Craters

scientific article published in November 1961

Coesite and Shocked Quartz from Holleford Crater, Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 01 October 1963

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

comment from Bunch et al. about the paper "Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims"

Compositional and lithological diversity among brecciated lunar meteorites of intermediate iron concentration

article by Randy L. Korotev et al published September 2009 in Meteoritics & Planetary Science

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

scholarly article

Contributions to the Mineral Chemistry of Hawaiian Rocks. VI. Olivines in Rocks from Haleakala and West Maui Volcanoes, Maui, Hawaii.

article by R V Fodor et al published 1977 in Pacific Science

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

scholarly article

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 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 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling

journal article published in 2007

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

Fullerenes in Allende meteorite

scientific article published in December 1994

Fullerenes in an impact crater on the LDEF spacecraft

scientific article

Fullerenes in the 1.85-billion-year-old Sudbury impact structure

scientific article

Fullerenes, fulleranes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Allende meteorite

scholarly article

Fullerenes: an extraterrestrial carbon carrier phase for noble gases

scientific article published on March 2000

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

scholarly article

Ground truth for oblique impact processes: New insight from the Rio Cuarto, Argentina, crater field

article

HAPPY CANYON: A NEW TYPE OF ENSTATITE ACHONDRITE

scientific article published in June 1977

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

Higher fullerenes in the Allende meteorite

scientific article published in Nature

Hydrothermal Origin for Carbonate Globules in ALH84001 by Analogy with Similar Carbonates from Spitsbergen (Norway)

abstract #1552 for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference #33

Hydrothermal origin for carbonate globules in Martian meteorite ALH84001: a terrestrial analogue from Spitsbergen (Norway)

scientific article published in December 2002

Impact event at the Permian-Triassic boundary: evidence from extraterrestrial noble gases in fullerenes

scientific article

Impact melt- and projectile-bearing ejecta at Barringer Crater, Arizona

Impact metamorphism of lunar surface materials

scientific article published on January 1970

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

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

Meteorites and Craters Campo del Cielo, Argentina

scientific article published on 01 September 1965

Microstructures in shocked quartz: linking nuclear airbursts and meteorite impacts

scientific article published in 2023

Mineral chemistry of lunar samples

scientific article published on January 1970

Mineralogy and petrology of silicate inclusions in iron meteorites

scientific article published in 1970

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 in the Younger Dryas boundary sediment layer

journal article published in 2009

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

poster for the The American Quaternary Association Conference 2010

Non-magnetic Iron rich microspherules from Younger Dryas Boundary layer

abstract from the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2013

Northwest Africa 032: Product of lunar volcanism

scientific article

Northwest Africa 4797: A strongly shocked ultramafic poikilitic shergottite related to compositionally intermediate Martian meteorites

scientific article

Northwest Africa 773: Lunar origin and iron-enrichment trend

scientific article

Possible fluid–rock interactions on differentiated asteroids recorded in eucritic meteorites

scholarly article

Potassium feldspar in weekeroo station, kodaikanal, and colomera iron meteorites

scientific article published on 01 December 1968

Potassium feldspar in weekeroo station, kodaikanal, and colomera iron meteorites

scientific article published on 01 June 1968

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

Processing of refractory meteorite inclusions (CAIs) in parent-body atmospheres

scientific article published in March 1990

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

Secondary processing of chondrules and refractory inclusions (CAIs) by gasdynamic heating

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

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-melt evidence for a cosmic impact with Earth during the Younger Dryas at 12.9 ka

abstract from Quaternary International

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

Spinel troctolite and anorthosite in apollo 16 samples

scientific article

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

The Quaternary impact record from the Pampas, Argentina

scholarly article

The nature and origin of interstellar diamond

scientific article published in Nature

The phosphates of IIIAB iron meteorites

scientific article published in March 1999

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

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