[meteorite-list] Clue to Antarctica Space Blast

From: Paul Heinrich <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:57:21 -0600
Message-ID: <4B8F2FA1.5020405_at_cox.net>

Greg wrote:

?Interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8547534.stm

Clues to Antarctica space blast By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News, The Woodlands, Texas?

The paper is:

Engrand, C. B. Narcisi, J. r. Petit, E. Dobrica, and J. Duprat,
2010, Isotopes of EPICA ? Dome C Extraterrestrial Dust Layers:
Constraints on the Nature of the Impactors. 41st Lunar and
Planetary Science Conference, held March 1-5, 2010 in The
Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1533, p.1981

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/1981.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010LPI....41.1981E

Related papers are:

1. Misawa, K., M. Kohno, T. Tomiyama, T. Noguchi, T.
Nakamura, K. Nagao, T.Mikouchi, and K. Nishiizumi, 2010,
Two extraterrestrial dust horizons found in the Dome Fuji
ice core, East Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
vol. 289, no. 1-2, pp. 287-297.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.016
http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/cosmochem/publications.html

The PDF for the above paper can be downloaded from
the link for this paper at:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235801%232010%23997109998%231578540%23FLA%23&_cdi=5801&_pubType=J&view=c&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=0377f75ed4c6eabaca0119b87f30f76c

2. Narcisi, B., J. Robert Petit, and B. Delmonte, nd, Extended
East Antarctic ice-core tephrostratigraphy Quaternary Science
Reviews, Article in Press, Corrected Proof

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.07.009

3. Narcisi, B., J. R. Petit, and C. Engrand, 2007, First discovery
of meteoritic events in deep Antarctic (EPICA-Dome C) ice cores.
de la Recherche Scientifique & Universit? Paris Sud, Orsay, France)
Geophysical Research Letters. vol. 34, no. 15, CiteID L1550

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007GeoRL..3415502N
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2007GL030801.shtml

A summary paper about the icecores:

Wolff, E. W., C. Barbante. S. Becagli, and many, many others,
2010, Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from
chemical analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews. vol. 29,
pp. 285?295.

http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~stocker/papers/wolff10qsr.pdf
http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~stocker/publications10.html

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Wed 03 Mar 2010 10:57:21 PM PST