[meteorite-list] Younger Dryas Impact Controversy Continues

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:59:40 -0500
Message-ID: <20120428115940.R8G5N.638866.imail_at_eastrmwml208>

The controversy over the Younger Dryas Impact
Hypothesis continues.

Mysterious Black Mats on Earth Not From Outer
Space by Charles Choi, LiveScience, April 23, 2012
http://www.livescience.com/19844-cosmic-collision-black-mats-earth.html

Perkins, S., 2012, No Love for Comet Wipeout.
ScienceNow, April 23, 2012
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/no-love-for-comet-wipeout.html

University of Miami press release at:

Anonymous, 2012, Miami geologist, colleagues:
New evidence argues against prehistoric
extraterrestrial impact. University of Miami
http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/16981.html

The paper is:

Pigati, J. S., C. Latorre, J. A. Rech, J. L.
Betancourte, K. E. Mart?nezb, and J. R. Budahn, 2012,
Accumulation of impact markers in desert wetlands
and implications for the Younger Dryas impact
hypothesis. Proceeedings of the National Academy
of Science. Published online before print April 23,
2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200296109 PNAS April 23, 2012
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/04/16/1200296109

Best wishes,

Paul H.
Received on Sat 28 Apr 2012 11:59:40 AM PDT