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Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex (retracted)
James P. Kennett, Malcolm A. LeCompte, Christopher R. Moore et al., 2025. PLOS One 20(9), e0319840.
Reported shock-fractured quartz and other proxies in sediments at Murray Springs (Arizona), Blackwater Draw (New Mexico) and Arlington Canyon (California) at the inferred boundary. Published 10 September 2025; retracted 11 February 2026.
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Kennett, J. P., LeCompte, M. A., Moore, C. R., Kletetschka, G., Johnson, J. R., Wolbach, W. S., & and others (2025). Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex (retracted). PLOS One 20(9), e0319840. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319840
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Kennett, James P. et al.. “Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex (retracted).” PLOS One 20(9), e0319840 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319840.