Person · Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Allen West

Co-author of the 2007 paper and most later proponent papers

Cites 1

Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling

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Events 3

Firestone and colleagues propose a Younger Dryas impact

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Proponents publish a Bayesian model giving a synchronous boundary at 12,835–12,735 cal BP

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Sweatman, Powell and West reject the refutation

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Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Allen West [Person FIG0D51X2780VPG]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0D51X2780VPG

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  title     = {Allen West},
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  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Person, catalog key FIG0D51X2780VPG},
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