School of Earth and Climate Sciences

Abstract:

Firestone, R.B., West, A., Kennett, J.P., Becker, L., Bunch, T.E., Revay, Zs., Schultz, P.H., Belgya, T., Dickenson, O.J., Erlandson, J.M., Goodyear, A.C., Harris, R.S., Howard, G.A., Kennett, D.J., Kloosterman, J.B., Lechler, P., Montgomery, J., Porada, R., Darrah, T., Que Hee, S.S., Smith, A.R., Stich, A., Topping, W., Wittke, J.H., Wolbach, W.S., and Mayewski, P.A., 2007, Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact, 12, 900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 104, 41, 16,o16-16,021.