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Recent papers critical of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: Daulton and Scott

I have provided some counter points below to the arguments made in the recent publications from Daulton and Scott (regular critics). However, I was particularly disturbed to see that the papers failed to include very significant confirmations of our work, for instance Adronikov 2016. Unlike Tian (2011) and Bement 2014. Daulton claims failure to locate diamonds, but that is no excuse for…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Chilled Diamonds Shine Light on Comet Collision

Scientists Brave Icy Environment to Find Evidence of Cosmic Cataclysm By Nader Heidari Published on September 16, 2010 Link here YDB team member James Kennett views the extraction of diamond-rich ice from the Greenland ice sheet The 21-person team, which included UCSB professor emeritus James Kennett and his son, University of Oregon geology professor Douglas Kennett, recently published a paper in…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Press Release: Daulton, Pinter and Scott publish finding NO diamonds in Younger Dryas Boundary layer

Impact hypothesis loses its sparkle Shock-synthesized diamonds said to prove a catastrophic impact killed off North American megafauna can’t be found Link to Press Release from the Washington University in St. Louis About 12,900 years ago, a sudden cold snap interrupted the gradual warming that had followed the last Ice Age. The cold lasted for the 1,300-year interval known as the Younger…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question