# Holliday 2023: Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)

> Vance T. Holliday, Tyrone L. Daulton, Patrick J. Bartlein et al., 2023. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The reference statement of the…

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# Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)

Vance T. Holliday, Tyrone L. Daulton, Patrick J. Bartlein et al., 2023. _Earth-Science Reviews 247, 104502_.

A review of the whole evidence base by 13 authors from geology, geochemistry, impact physics, palaeobotany and archaeology. Concludes that no crater dates to the onset, that the proxies have problems of identification and are not unique to the boundary, that few high-proxy sites are well dated, and that there is no evidence of continental catastrophe, population decline or a single-moment extinction.

**Younger Dryas impact hypothesis** Articledoi: **[10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The reference statement of the mainstream position.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[No impact or airburst occurred; the proposed markers are terrestrial or background cosmic material…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/answers/ANS0D51XBQY621Q/no-impact-or-airburst-occurred-the-proposed-markers-are)

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[Holliday and twelve co-authors publish a comprehensive refutation](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/events/EVT0D51X6KW5M7Z/holliday-and-twelve-co-authors-publish-a-comprehensive)

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[Vance T. Holliday](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/people/FIG0D51X2YP15BV/vance-t-holliday)

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

The mystery article

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[Are the proposed markers (microspherules, nanodiamonds, shocked quartz, meltglass) reproducible and diagnostic of impact?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/questions/QST0D51X8T620G9/are-the-proposed-markers-microspherules-nanodiamonds-shocked)

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[Did an extraterrestrial impact or airburst occur at the onset of the Younger Dryas, about 12,800 years ago?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/questions/QST0D51X8AJ1304/did-an-extraterrestrial-impact-or-airburst-occur-at-the)

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## Cite it

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Holliday, V. T., Daulton, T. L., Bartlein, P. J., Boslough, M. B., Breslawski, R. P., Fisher, A. E., Jorgeson, I. A., Scott, A. C., Koeberl, C., Marlon, J. R., Severinghaus, J., Petaev, M. I., & Claeys, P. (2023). Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH). Earth-Science Reviews 247, 104502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502
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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502)

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