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


ABSTRACT: The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis posits that a cosmic impact across much of the Northern Hemisphere deposited the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) layer, containing peak abundances in a variable assemblage of proxies, including magnetic and glassy impact-related spherules, high-temperature minerals and melt glass, nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, aciniform carbon, platinum, and osmium. Bayesian chronological modeling was applied to 354 dates from 23 stratigraphic sections in 12 countries on four continents to establish a modeled YDB age range for this event of 12,835-12,735 Cal B.P. at 95% probability. This range overlaps that of a peak in extraterrestrial platinum in the Greenland Ice Sheet and of the earliest age of the Younger Dryas climate episode in six proxy records, suggesting a causal connection between the YDB impact event and the Younger Dryas. Two statistical tests indicate that both modeled and unmodeled ages in the 30 records are consistent with synchronous deposition of the YDB layer within the limits of dating uncertainty (? 100 y). The widespread distribution of the YDB layer suggests that it may serve as a datum layer.

SUBMITTER: Kennett JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4538614 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Kennett James P JP   Kennett Douglas J DJ   Culleton Brendan J BJ   Aura Tortosa J Emili JE   Bischoff James L JL   Bunch Ted E TE   Daniel I Randolph IR   Erlandson Jon M JM   Ferraro David D   Firestone Richard B RB   Goodyear Albert C AC   Israde-Alcántara Isabel I   Johnson John R JR   Jordá Pardo Jesús F JF   Kimbel David R DR   LeCompte Malcolm A MA   Lopinot Neal H NH   Mahaney William C WC   Moore Andrew M T AM   Moore Christopher R CR   Ray Jack H JH   Stafford Thomas W TW   Tankersley Kenneth Barnett KB   Wittke James H JH   Wolbach Wendy S WS   West Allen A  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150727 32


The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis posits that a cosmic impact across much of the Northern Hemisphere deposited the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) layer, containing peak abundances in a variable assemblage of proxies, including magnetic and glassy impact-related spherules, high-temperature minerals and melt glass, nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, aciniform carbon, platinum, and osmium. Bayesian chronological modeling was applied to 354 dates from 23 stratigraphic sections in 12 countries on four c  ...[more]

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