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Extraordinary biomass-burning episode and impact winter triggered by the Younger Dryas cosmic impact ~12,800 years ago. 1. Ice cores and glaciers

Wendy S. Wolbach, Joanne P. Ballard, Paul A. Mayewski et al., 2018. The Journal of Geology 126(2), 165–184.

Argues from ice-core ammonium, nitrate, black carbon and other combustion markers that impacts set fires over about 10% of Earth's land and caused an impact winter. Part 2 (doi:10.1086/695704) covers lake, marine and terrestrial sediments.

MYS0D51WZ1P63TH · mystery · click to copyMYounger Dryas impact hypothesisArticledoi: 10.1086/695703Checked against the original0

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The proponents' wildfire and impact-winter argument.

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Wolbach, W. S., Ballard, J. P., Mayewski, P. A., & and others (2018). Extraordinary biomass-burning episode and impact winter triggered by the Younger Dryas cosmic impact ~12,800 years ago. 1. Ice cores and glaciers. The Journal of Geology 126(2), 165–184. https://doi.org/10.1086/695703
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