Event · Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

PLOS One publishes the shocked-quartz paper

Involves 2

Comet Research Group

Organisation

ORG

James P. Kennett

Person

FIG

At 1

Murray Springs, San Pedro Valley, Arizona

Place

PLC

Cites 1

Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex (retracted)

SRC

Happened to 1

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

MYS

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). PLOS One publishes the shocked-quartz paper [Event EVT0D51X7K41575]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0D51X7K41575

@misc{mysteriesdept_evt0d51x7k41575,
  title     = {PLOS One publishes the shocked-quartz paper},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Event, catalog key EVT0D51X7K41575},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0D51X7K41575}
}