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A Late Paleocene age for Greenland's Hiawatha impact structure

Gavin G. Kenny, William R. Hyde, Michael Storey et al., 2022. Science Advances 8(10), eabm2434.

40Ar/39Ar dating of glaciofluvial sand and U-Pb dating of shocked zircon from impact melt rock downstream of Hiawatha Glacier give an impact age of 57.99 ± 0.54 million years.

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Removes the one candidate crater that had been linked to the Younger Dryas.

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Kenny, G. G., Hyde, W. R., Storey, M., Garde, A. A., & and others (2022). A Late Paleocene age for Greenland's Hiawatha impact structure. Science Advances 8(10), eabm2434. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm2434
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