# Wolbach 2018: 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. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The proponents' wildfire and impact-winter…

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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.

**Younger Dryas impact hypothesis** Articledoi: **[10.1086/695703](https://doi.org/10.1086/695703)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The proponents' wildfire and impact-winter argument.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Impact-driven fires and an impact winter tipped the climate.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/answers/ANS0D51XN8M37Y6/impact-driven-fires-and-an-impact-winter-tipped-the-climate)

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[Ice-core combustion markers are said to show a biomass-burning episode at the onset.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/evidence/EVD0D51XNGE2B10/ice-core-combustion-markers-are-said-to-show-a-biomass)

Evidence

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[The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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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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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1086/695703)

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