[meteorite-list] Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13, 000 Years Ago

[Paul H.]

Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13,000 Years Ago
Science Daily, Dec. 14, 2009) — An international team of scientists led 
by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found no 
evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of 
the Younger Dryas approximately 13,000 years ago.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132734.htm

The paper is:

Paquay, F. S. G. Ravizza, S. Goderis, P. Claeys, S. Goderis, F. Vanhaeck, 
M. Boyd, T. A. Surovell, V. T. Holliday, and C. V. Haynes, Jr., 2009, Absence 
of geochemical evidence for an impact event at the Bølling–Allerød/Younger 
Dryas transition.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 
Published online before print December 10, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0908874106 

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/09/0908874106

http://www.pnas.org/search?fulltext=Pleistocene+extinction&sortspec=date&submit=Submit&andorexactfulltext=phrase

Yours,

Paul H.