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kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago

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New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago

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kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age, but skeptics still aren't convinced.

Just published in PLOS 1 on Aug. 6, this study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0328347

reports finding airburst proxies in a core 6.3 meters down in Baffin Bay that are consistent with the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (now 18 years old).

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