• 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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    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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  • Ancient Apocalypse (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    from the Comet Research Group, including the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has been comprehensively refuted, and which attributes...
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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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  • Extraterrestrial diamonds (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    carbon phase even exist. Other evidence claimed to support the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis has also been refuted In 1981, Martin Ross wrote a paper titled...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    potential evidence for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. The dating claiming these anomalies correspond to the Younger Dryas onset has been comprehensively...
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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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  • 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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    the Comet Research Group (CRG), including the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. Archaeologists and other experts have described the theories...
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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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    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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    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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  • “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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • volcanic cause for the Younger Dryas geochemical anomalies and provides an alternative to the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. 1 August – Brazil's National...
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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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