A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay (retracted)

Christopher R. Moore, Vladimir A. Tselmovich, Malcolm A. LeCompte et al., 2025. PLOS One 20(8), e0328347.

Reported platinum, microspherules and material identified as cometary dust in four marine cores from Baffin Bay, dated by radiocarbon on foraminifera to the Younger Dryas onset. Published 6 August 2025; retracted 11 February 2026.

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Moore, C. R., Tselmovich, V. A., LeCompte, M. A., West, A., Culver, S. J., Mallinson, D. J., & and others (2025). A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay (retracted). PLOS One 20(8), e0328347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328347

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Moore, Christopher R. et al.. “A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay (retracted).” PLOS One 20(8), e0328347 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328347.