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Sedimentary record from Patagonia, southern Chile supports cosmic-impact triggering of biomass burning, climate change, and megafaunal extinctions at 12.8 ka

The Younger Dryas (YD) impact hypothesis posits that fragments of a large, disintegrating asteroid/comet struck North America, South America, Europe, and western Asia ~12,800 years ago. Multiple airbursts/impacts produced the YD boundary layer (YDB), depositing peak concentrations of platinum, high-...

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Autores principales: Pino, Mario, Abarzúa, Ana M., Astorga, Giselle, Martel-Cea, Alejandra, Cossio-Montecinos, Nathalie, Navarro, R. Ximena, Lira, Maria Paz, Labarca, Rafael, LeCompte, Malcolm A., Adedeji, Victor, Moore, Christopher R., Bunch, Ted E., Mooney, Charles, Wolbach, Wendy S., West, Allen, Kennett, James P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6416299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30867437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38089-y

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