• The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period...
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    of the Younger Dryas has been confirmed in both ice cores and cave deposits. The Younger Dryas is named after the alpine–tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala...
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  • Ancient Apocalypse (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has been comprehensively refuted, and which attributes climate change to an impact winter caused...
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    a proposed date for such an impact and the following megafaunal extinctions. However, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis lacks widespread support among...
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  • Magicians of the Gods (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    seeks an explanation for his catastrophe in the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, suggesting that around 10,800 BC the fragments of a large...
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    This has become the subject of considerable discussion. The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis offered another proposed natural explanation for flood myths...
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    the impact. Initial interpretations of the crater having a much younger age, during the Pleistocene led to it being associated with the Younger Dryas impact...
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    Lonsdaleite (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    proponents of the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which is now refuted by earth scientists and planetary impact specialists. Claims of Lonsdaleite...
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    disappearance of his ice age civilization, Hancock embraces the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has little support in the scientific community. He argues...
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  • known for his contributions to the controversial and disputed Younger Dryas impact hypothesis which asserts that the Clovis culture was destroyed by a shower...
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    Pilauco Bajo (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    The site was claimed to contain evidence for the disputed Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. Most of the stone artifacts found in Pilauco are made of volcanic...
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  • of environmental events Younger Dryas impact hypothesis Kristan-Tollmann, E.; Tollmann, A. (1994). "The youngest big impact on Earth deduced from geological...
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    1952 that Hiawatha Glacier had been retreating since 1920. The proposed impact structure was identified using airborne radar surveys that showed the presence...
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  • Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    for the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. However, the claim that these anomalies correspond to the Younger Dryas onset has been comprehensively...
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    Carolina bays (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    during glacial sealevel lowstands; extraterrestrial impact hypotheses: A meteorite impact hypothesis proposed for Carolina bays in a 1933 publication by...
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    geologists in their research. Proponents of the widely disputed Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposed that the abundant charcoal, which is found...
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  • the impact could have occurred as late as ~12,800 years ago, leading some to associate it with the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH)...
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  • Extraterrestrial diamonds (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    ureilites, and most are thought to have been formed by the shock of the impact with either Earth or other bodies in space.: 264  However, much larger diamonds...
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  • cobalt at the Younger Dryas boundary in material from Abu Hureyra. They concluded that the evidence supports the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has...
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  • titled "Modeling attacks on the food supply". The controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which evolved directly from pseudoscience and now forms the...
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  • Philippe (26 July 2023). "Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)". Earth-Science Reviews: 104502. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev...
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  • Corossol crater (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    stated in 2013. Moreover, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis has now been refuted by earth scientists and planetary impact specialists. Bloody Creek crater...
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    self-published 2020 book, Powell defended the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis which has been rejected by the mainstream scientific community...
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  • “personal editor” on several PNAS papers about the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, starting with the original 2007 paper and continuing even...
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    David; Grayson, Donald; Boslough, Mark (2014-08-01). "The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A cosmic catastrophe". Journal of Quaternary Science. 29 (6):...
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    Catastrophe (2008 TV series) (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    will continue to be a threat in the future. In describing the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, archaeologist Ken Tankersley investigated evidence from Sheriden...
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    Holocene extinction (category Environmental impact by effect)
    the shift in climate is presented under the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which states that the impact of comets cooled global temperatures. Despite...
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  • disruption of paleoindian cultures. Napier argues for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis that the cooling event was caused by the collision with "a...
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  • supernova on marine megafauna and on human evolution, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, the effects of the 774-775 carbon-14 spike and its association...
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  • peer-reviewed journals and book series. The controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which evolved directly from pseudoscience and now forms the...
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