[meteorite-list] Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13, 000 Years Ago

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 8:39:05 -0500
Message-ID: <20091215083905.S1IDW.198884.imail_at_eastrmwml39>

Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13,000 Years Ago
Science Daily, Dec. 14, 2009) ? An international team of scientists led
by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found no
evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of
the Younger Dryas approximately 13,000 years ago.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132734.htm

The paper is:

Paquay, F. S. G. Ravizza, S. Goderis, P. Claeys, S. Goderis, F. Vanhaeck,
M. Boyd, T. A. Surovell, V. T. Holliday, and C. V. Haynes, Jr., 2009, Absence
of geochemical evidence for an impact event at the B?lling?Aller?d/Younger
Dryas transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published online before print December 10, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0908874106

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/09/0908874106

http://www.pnas.org/search?fulltext=Pleistocene+extinction&sortspec=date&submit=Submit&andorexactfulltext=phrase

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Tue 15 Dec 2009 08:39:05 AM PST