Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics
Cheng et al. · 2020
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Citation
Cheng et al. (2020). Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Source notes
Asserts that the Younger Dryas cannot have been triggered by an extraterrestrial event due to chronology issues; does not explicitly deny the impact happened, just that it caused the YD.
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