Evidence for a Solar Flare cause of the Pleistocene mass extinction
LaViolette · 2011
Radiocarbon
Citation
LaViolette (2011). Evidence for a Solar Flare cause of the Pleistocene mass extinction. Radiocarbon.
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Editorial assessment & provenance
- Editorial assessment
- Critical
- Source collection
- Peer Reviewed Literature
- Record type
- Paper
- Publication status
- Not independently checked
- Author affiliation
- Independent (source assessment) (source classification)
- Source location
- Peer Reviewed Literature, row 58
- Snapshot imported
- 2026-10-08
Source notes
Advocates for a solar event, rather than impact event, as having caused the YD/extinctions.
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