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A 20,000-year record of ocean circulation and climate change from the Santa Barbara basin

scientific article published in Nature

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 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

A one-million-year history of a north-south segment of the Subtropical Front, east of New Zealand

article

Abrupt deep-sea warming, palaeoceanographic changes and benthic extinctions at the end of the Palaeocene

scientific article published in Nature

Abrupt termination of Marine Isotope Stage 16 (Termination VII) at 631.5 ka in Santa Barbara Basin, California

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

An extinct foraminifer endemic to hydrocarbon seeps?

scholarly article

Antarctic Bottom Water: Major Change in Velocity during the Late Cenozoic between Australia and Antarctica

scientific article published in Science

Antarctic Glaciation during the Tertiary Recorded in Sub-Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores

scientific article published in Science

Antarctic subtropical humid episode at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Clay-mineral evidence

article

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

Biometric Analysis of Phenotypic Variation: Globigerina pachyderma (Ehrenberg) in the South Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 05 May 2006

Biometric analysis of phenotypic variation in RecentGlobigerina bulloides d'Orbigny in the southern Indian Ocean

scientific article published on 07 August 2003

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

scholarly article

Biotic response to late Quaternary rapid climate switches in Santa Barbara Basin: Ecological and evolutionary implications

scholarly article

Bolboforma Daniels and Spiegler, from Eocene and Lower Oligocene Sediments, Maud Rise, Antarctica

chapter

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

Brief interstadial events in the Santa Barbara basin, NE Pacific, during the past 60 kyr

scientific article published in Nature

Cenozoic Paleoceanography in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, Antarctic Glaciation, and the Development of the Circumantarctic Current

Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic glaciation, the circum-Antarctic Ocean, and their impact on global paleoceanography

scholarly article

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

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

Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Coastal Southern California

article

Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycles and the California Current System: Planktonic foraminiferal response to rapid climate change in Santa Barbara Basin, Ocean Drilling Program Hole 893A

scientific article

Development of the circum-antarctic current

scientific article published in Science

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

scholarly article

Dynamics of the Laurentide ice sheet during the last deglaciation: evidence from the Gulf of Mexico

scholarly article

Early State Formation in Southern Mesopotamia: Sea Levels, Shorelines, and Climate Change

Effects of carbon dioxide sequestration on California margin deep-sea foraminiferal assemblages

scholarly article by Erin R. Ricketts et al published September 2009 in Marine Micropaleontology

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

an abstract for the 25th Pacific Climate Workshop, 2011

Episodes of cenozoic volcanism in the circum-pacific region

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

scholarly article

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

Evolution of Textularia Kapitea Finlay, Cape Foulwind, New Zealand

scholarly article published by J. P. Kennett in 1963

Exploring Late Pleistocene climate variations

Exploring new drilling prospects in the southwest Pacific

scientific article published in 2014

Extending the record of abrupt and millennial-scale climate and ocean change through the Mid-Pleistocene transition in Santa Barbara basin, California

scientific 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

Foraminiferal evidence of a shallow calcium carbonate solution boundary, ross sea, antarctica

scientific article published in Science

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

scholarly article

Globorotalia menardii neoflexuosa new subspecies from the northern Indian Ocean

scientific article published in April 1974

Globorotalia puncticulata: Population divergence, dispersal and extinction related to Pliocene–Quaternary water masses

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

Human responses to Middle Holocene climate change on California's Channel Islands

article

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

Influence of Holocene marine transgression and climate change on cultural evolution in southern Mesopotamia**This chapter appeared in somewhat different form in the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 1:67–99, and is used with permission of the

scholarly article by Douglas J Kennett published in January 2007

Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 29

Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 90

scientific article published in January 1986

Introduction and Explanatory Notes

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

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

Isotopic evidence for the incorporation of methane-derived carbon into foraminifera from modern methane seeps, Hydrate Ridge, Northeast Pacific

article

Late Cenozoic Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Changes at DSDP Site 284: Implications for Glacial History of the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctic

Late Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminifera and Paleoceanography at DSDP Site 284 in the Cool Subtropical South Pacific

Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction Consistent With YDB Impact Hypothesis at Younger Dryas Onset ⬇️

abstract PP23D-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Latest Miocene benthic δ18O changes, global ice volume, sea level and the ‘Messinian salinity crisis’

scientific article published in April 1986

Latest Quaternary North Pacific surface-water responses imply atmosphere-driven climate instability

scientific article

Latest Quaternary rock magnetic record of climatic and oceanic change, Tanner Basin, California borderland

scholarly article

Marine Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate Change

scientific article

Methane Hydrates in Quaternary Climate Change: The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis

scientific article (publication date: 2003)

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

scientific article published in 2023

Middle Holocene climate change and human population dispersal in western North America

Middle Miocene Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic cryosphere expansion

scientific article

Middle Miocene deepwater paleoceanography in the southwest Pacific: Relations with East Antarctic Ice Sheet development

scientific article published in December 1995

Middle Miocene paleoclimate change at Bryce Burn, southern New Zealand

article

Middle and Late Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Southwest Pacific DSDP, Leg 21

scientific article published in October 1973

Millennial scale changes in sea surface temperature and ocean circulation in the northeast Pacific, 10-60 kyr BP

scientific article published in 2012

Millennial-scale variability to 735 ka: High-resolution climate records from Santa Barbara Basin, CA

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

poster for the The American Quaternary Association Conference 2010

New constraints on early Tertiary palaeoproductivity from carbon isotopes in foraminifera

scientific article published in Nature

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

abstract from the American Quaternary Association

Nonconstant extinction rates of Neogene planktonic foraminifera

scientific article published in Nature

Organic composition of Younger Dryas black mat ⬇️

Palaeotectonic implications of increased late Eocene—early Oligocene volcanism from South Pacific DSDP sites

scientific article published in Nature

Paleoceanographic evolution of the Tasmanian Seaway and its climatic implications

scientific article published in 2004

Paleotemperature History of the Cenozoic and the Initiation of Antarctic Glaciation: Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Analyses in DSDP Sites 277, 279 and 281

Periodic freshwater flooding and stagnation of the eastern mediterranean sea during the late quaternary

scientific article published in Science

Phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium in the late Neogene planktonic foraminiferal clade Globoconella

article published in 1988

Planktic foraminiferal and sea surface temperature record during the last 1 Myr across the Subtropical Front, Southwest Pacific

article by Grace Schaefer et al published March 2005 in Marine Micropaleontology

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

2023 paper from Moore et al.

Pliocene-Pleistocene Radiolarian Biostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology at DSDP Site 278 on the Antarctic Convergence

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

Relations between Monterey Formation deposition and middle Miocene global cooling: Naples Beach section, California

scientific article

Relationships between anoxia, glacial meltwater and microfossil preservation in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

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

scholarly article

Resolving the cause of large differences between deglacial benthic foraminifera radiocarbon measurements in Santa Barbara Basin

article published in 2010

Response of seafloor ecosystems to abrupt global climate change

scientific article

Routing of meltwater from the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Younger Dryas cold episode

scientific article published in Nature

SYNCHRONOUS ICE-DAM COLLAPSES AND OUTBURST FLOODING FROM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE PROGLACIAL LAKES AT YOUNGER DRYAS ONSET (12.8 KA) IMPLIES COSMIC IMPACT TRIGGER

Santa Barbara basin study extends global climate record

Seasonal stability in Late Holocene shellfish harvesting on the central California coast

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

Site 275

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

Structure of the penultimate deglaciation along the California margin and implications for Milankovitch theory

scholarly 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

Taxonomic evolution of Neogene planktonic foraminifera and paleoceanographic relations

Tectonic geomorphology and hydrocarbon induced topography of the Mid-Channel Anticline, Santa Barbara Basin, California

scientific article published in September 2007

Tectono-sedimentary history of uppermost Cretaceous through Oligocene sequences from the Tasmanian region: A temperate Antarctic margin

scientific article published in 2004

Tertiary sequence at upper Tengawai River, South Canterbury

J. Kennett

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

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

The End Pleistocene Extinction Event - What Caused It? ⬇️

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

The Globorotalia crassaformis Bioseries in North Westland and Marlborough, New Zealand

scientific article published in April 1966

The Kapitean Stage (Upper Miocene) of New Zealand ⬇️

1965 doctoral thesis by James Peter Kennett at Victoria University of Wellington

The Younger Dryas Cool Episode in the Gulf of Mexico

scientific article

The Younger Dryas Cooling Event: An introduction

scientific article

The Younger Dryas ET Impact Theory and Terminal Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America ⬇️

abstract PP43A-06 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

The chronology of the last Deglaciation: Implications to the cause of the Younger Dryas Event

scientific article

The effect of submerged plateaux on Pleistocene gyral circulation and sea-surface temperatures in the Southwest Pacific

scholarly article

The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 6. Ecology and distribution of Foraminifera ⬇️

The last deglaciation in Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico: High-resolution planktonic foraminiferal changes

scientific article published in 1985

The middle Miocene climatic transition: East Antarctic ice sheet development, deep ocean circulation and global carbon cycling

scientific article published in 1994

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

Vertical movement of low-oxygen waters in Santa Barbara Basin for the past 15,000 years

scientific article

Vertical oxygen minimum zone oscillations since 20 ka in Santa Barbara Basin: A benthic foraminiferal community perspective

scholarly article

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

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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