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Cometary airbursts and atmospheric chemistry: Tunguska and a candidate Younger Dryas event
Adrian L. Melott, Brian C. Thomas, Gisela Dreschhoff et al., 2010. Geology 38(4), 355–358.
Finds modelled nitrate from atmospheric ionisation consistent with a nitrate enhancement in the GISP2H and GISP2 ice cores at 1908, and an unexplained ammonium spike, which they suggest a comet could supply.
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The ice-core trace of 1908 and a comet-favouring argument.
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Melott, A. L., Thomas, B. C., Dreschhoff, G., & Johnson, C. K. (2010). Cometary airbursts and atmospheric chemistry: Tunguska and a candidate Younger Dryas event. Geology 38(4), 355–358. https://doi.org/10.1130/G30508.1
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Melott, Adrian L. et al.. “Cometary airbursts and atmospheric chemistry: Tunguska and a candidate Younger Dryas event.” Geology 38(4), 355–358 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1130/G30508.1.