[meteorite-list] Younger Dryas platinum anomaly reported from South Carolina - Open Access paper

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:19:00 -0500
Message-ID: <80ae76fd-b580-f308-1224-9d28ca00e588_at_att.net>

New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision
12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate
change for Earth, the Conversation, October 22, 2019
https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-that-an-extraterrestrial-collision-12-800-years-ago-triggered-an-abrupt-climate-change-for-earth-118244

the open access paper is:

Moore, C.R., M.J. Brooks, A.C. Goodyear, T.A.
Ferguson, A.G. Perrotti, S. Mitra, A. Listecki,
B. King, D.J. Mallinson, C.S. Lane, B. Shapiro,
J. Knapp, A. West, D.L. Carlson, W. Wolbach,
T.R. Them, S.M. Harris, and S. Pyne-O???Donnell.
2019. Sediment Cores from White Pond, South
Carolina, contain a platinum anomaly,
pyrogenic carbon peak, and coprophilous
spore decline at 12.8 ka. Scientific Reports
volume 9, Article number: 15121 (2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51552-8

Regardless of how the platinum anomaly is
interpreted, White Pond, a Carolina Bay predates
it and the Younger Dryas. Thus, the above paper
further supports the idea that the Carolina Bays
are not connected to Younger Dryas event as
concluded by:

Schaetzl, R.J., Sauck, W., Heinrich, P.V., Colgan, P.M.
and Holliday, V.T., 2019. Commentary on Klokocnik,
J., Kostelecky, and Bezdek, A. 2019. The putative
Saginaw impact structure, Michigan, Lake Huron,
in the light of gravity aspects derived from recent
EIGEN 6C4 gravity field model. Journal of Great
Lakes Research 45: 12???20.

A related paper is:

Krause, T.R., Russell, J.M., Zhang, R., Williams, J.W.
and Jackson, S.T., 2019. Late Quaternary vegetation,
climate, and fire history of the Southeast Atlantic
Coastal Plain based on a 30,000-yr multi-proxy record
from White Pond, South Carolina, USA. Quaternary
Research, 91(2), pp.861-880.
Vancouver

Yours

Paul H.
Received on Wed 23 Oct 2019 06:19:00 PM PDT