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the contested proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago triggered Younger Dryas cooling and megafaunal extinctions.

In earth science, Younger Dryas impact hypothesis refers to the contested proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago triggered Younger Dryas cooling and megafaunal extinctions. This meaning comes from Firestone (2007) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Firestone, R. B., West, A., Kennett, J. P., Becker, L., Bunch, T. E., Revay, Z. S., Schultz, P. H., Belgya, T., Kennett, D. J., Erlandson, J. M., Dickenson, O. J., Goodyear, A. C., Harris, R. S., Howard, G. A., Kloosterman, J. B., Lechler, P., Mayewski, P. A., Montgomery, J., Poreda, R., Darrah, T., Hee, S. S. Q., Smith, A. R., Stich, A., Topping, W., Wittke, J. H., & Wolbach, W. S. (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, 104(41), 16016-16021. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706977104

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