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No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger–Dryas sediments to support an impact event

Tyrone L. Daulton, Nicholas Pinter, Andrew C. Scott, 2010. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(37), 16043–16047.

Electron-microscopy re-examination of carbon spherules and nanodiamond claims from Younger Dryas boundary sediments; the authors report misidentified graphene and graphene-oxide aggregates and no nanodiamonds.

MYS0D51WZ1P63TH · mystery · click to copyMYounger Dryas impact hypothesisArticledoi: 10.1073/pnas.1003904107Checked against the original0

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The main challenge to the nanodiamond proxy.

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Daulton, T. L., Pinter, N., & Scott, A. C. (2010). No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger–Dryas sediments to support an impact event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(37), 16043–16047. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1003904107
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