Premature rejection in science: The case of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: Review of the impact evidence

(2021) Martin B. Sweatman   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population

(2021) Luciano Prates et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

(2021) Matthew R. Bennett et al.   SCIENCE

Geochemical evidence for volcanic signatures in sediments of the Younger Dryas event

(2021) Nan Sun et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Radiocarbon simulation fails to support the temporal synchroneity requirement of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

(2020) Ian A. Jorgeson et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C

(2020) Andrew M. T. Moore et al.   Scientific Reports

Volcanic origin for Younger Dryas geochemical anomalies ca. 12,900 cal B.P.

(2020) N. Sun et al.   Science Advances

A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada, and evidence for an extraterrestrial event

(2019) James Teller et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a Platinum Anomaly, Pyrogenic Carbon Peak, and Coprophilous Spore Decline at 12.8 ka

(2019) Christopher R. Moore et al.   Scientific Reports

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago: A Reply

(2019) Wendy S. Wolbach et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern Laos

(2019) Kerry Sieh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 2. Lake, Marine, and Terrestrial Sediments

(2018) Wendy S. Wolbach et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Deglacial floods in the Beaufort Sea preceded Younger Dryas cooling

(2018) L. D. Keigwin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cosmic-Impact Event in Lake Sediments from Central Europe Postdates the Laacher See Eruption and Marks Onset of the Younger Dryas

(2018) Gunther Kletetschka et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

(2018) Kurt H. Kjær et al.   Science Advances

Did Nanodiamonds Rain from the Sky as Woolly Mammoths Fell in their Tracks Across North America 12,900 Years Ago?

(2017) T. L. Daulton et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences

(2017) Christopher R. Moore et al.   Scientific Reports

Implications from chemical, structural and mineralogical studies of magnetic microspherules from around the lower younger dryas boundary (new mexico, usa)

(2016) Alexandre V. Andronikov et al.   GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Trace element distribution and implications in sediments across the allerød–younger dryas boundary in the netherlands and belgium

(2016) Alexandre V. Andronikov et al.   GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

A Microbial Link to Weathering of Postglacial Rocks and Sediments, Mount Viso Area, Western Alps, Demonstrated through Analysis of a Soil/Paleosol Bio/Chronosequence

(2016) W. C. Mahaney et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Comprehensive analysis of nanodiamond evidence relating to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

(2016) Tyrone L. Daulton et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

(2016) Christopher Bronk Ramsey   RADIOCARBON

Timing of the first drainage of the Baltic Ice Lake synchronous with the onset of Greenland Stadial 1

(2015) Francesco Muschitiello et al.   BOREAS

Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals

(2015) Donald K. Grayson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A search for shocked quartz grains in the Allerød-Younger Dryas boundary layer

(2015) Annelies Van Hoesel et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835–12,735 Cal B.P. for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents

(2015) James P. Kennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geochemical evidence of the presence of volcanic and meteoritic materials in Late Pleistocene lake sediments of Lithuania

(2015) Alexandre V. Andronikov et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

In search for fingerprints of an extraterrestrial event: Trace element characteristics of sediments from the lake Medvedevskoye (Karelian Isthmus, Russia)

(2014) A. V. Andronikov et al.   DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES

Nanodiamond-Rich Layer across Three Continents Consistent with Major Cosmic Impact at 12,800 Cal BP

(2014) Charles R. Kinzie et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: a cosmic catastrophe

(2014) VANCE T. HOLLIDAY et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Chronological evidence fails to support claim of an isochronous widespread layer of cosmic impact indicators dated to 12,800 years ago

(2014) D. J. Meltzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying the distribution of nanodiamonds in pre-Younger Dryas to recent age deposits along Bull Creek, Oklahoma Panhandle, USA

(2014) Leland C. Bement et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origin and provenance of spherules and magnetic grains at the Younger Dryas boundary

(2013) Y. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large Pt anomaly in the Greenland ice core points to a cataclysm at the onset of Younger Dryas

(2013) M. I. Petaev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Faulty protocols yield contaminated samples, unconfirmed results

(2013) M. Boslough   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago

(2013) James H. Wittke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lake Agassiz during the Younger Dryas

(2013) James T. Teller   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: a critical review

(2013) Annelies van Hoesel et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago

(2012) T. E. Bunch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accumulation of impact markers in desert wetlands and implications for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

(2012) J. S. Pigati et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nanodiamonds and wildfire evidence in the Usselo horizon postdate the Allerod-Younger Dryas boundary

(2012) A. van Hoesel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Suspect cubic diamond "impact" proxy and a suspect lonsdaleite identification

(2012) T. L. Daulton   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reply to Blaauw et al., Boslough, Daulton, Gill et al., and Hardiman et al.: Younger Dryas impact proxies in Lake Cuitzeo, Mexico

(2012) I. Israde-Alcantara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independent evaluation of conflicting microspherule results from different investigations of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

(2012) M. A. LeCompte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem

(2011) Nicholas Pinter et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Extreme heating events and effects in the natural environment: Implications for environmental geomorphology

(2011) William C. Mahaney et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Discovery of a nanodiamond-rich layer in the Greenland ice sheet

(2011) Andrei V. Kurbatov et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

Stratigraphy of the Younger Dryas Chronozone and paleoenvironmental implications: Central and Southern Great Plains

(2011) Vance T. Holliday et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Multiple lines of evidence for possible Human population decline/settlement reorganization during the early Younger Dryas

(2011) David G. Anderson et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

What Caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event?

(2010) Anders E. Carlson   GEOLOGY

Fungus, not comet or catastrophe, accounts for carbonaceous spherules in the Younger Dryas “impact layer”

(2010) Andrew C. Scott et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Identification of Younger Dryas outburst flood path from Lake Agassiz to the Arctic Ocean

(2010) Julian B. Murton et al.   NATURE

No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger-Dryas sediments to support an impact event

(2010) T. L. Daulton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nanodiamonds do not provide unique evidence for a Younger Dryas impact

(2010) H. Tian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Confirmation of the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) data at Murray Springs, AZ

(2010) R. B. Firestone et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geochemical data reported by Paquay et al. do not refute Younger Dryas impact event

(2010) T. E. Bunch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Murray Springs Clovis site, Pleistocene extinction, and the question of extraterrestrial impact

(2010) C. V. Haynes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Putting the Younger Dryas cold event into context

(2010) Wallace S. Broecker et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evidence for a cosmogenic origin of fired glaciofluvial beds in the northwestern Andes: Correlation with experimentally heated quartz and feldspar

(2010) William C. Mahaney et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

The convincing identification of terrestrial meteorite impact structures: What works, what doesn't, and why

(2009) Bevan M. French et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evidence from the northwestern Venezuelan Andes for extraterrestrial impact: The black mat enigma

(2009) W.C. Mahaney et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

(2009) T. A. Surovell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Absence of geochemical evidence for an impact event at the Bolling-Allerod/Younger Dryas transition

(2009) F. S. Paquay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments

(2009) D. J. Kennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

(2009) J. R. Marlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer

(2009) D. J. Kennett et al.   SCIENCE

Younger Dryas "black mats" and the Rancholabrean termination in North America

(2008) C. V. Haynes   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød–Younger Dryas boundary (13.0–12.9ka)

(2008) D KENNETT et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS