The Younger Dryas Boundary strewnfield is shown (red) with YDB sites as red dots and those by eight independent groups as blue dots. Also shown is the largest known impact strewnfield, the ...

About 12,800 years ago, much of the Earth was plunged into a mini ice age, leading to the extinction of many megafauna species. What exactly caused this period, known as the Younger Dryas, is ...

The mission uses airborne radar to map the thickness of ice at Earth’s poles. ... and is thought to represent the Younger Dryas cold period, which spanned from about 12,800 to 11,700 years ago.

The discovery of melted rock formations and microdiamonds supports the theory that a comet exploded in Earth's atmosphere 13,000 years ago.

An impact crater spotted in 2015 in Greenland is far too old to be connected to the Younger Dryas cold snap from 13,000 years ago, a study suggests. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

The event is called the Younger Dryas period. As you can see from the graph here, all indications are that the earth was emerging from a glacial period about 15,000 years ago, with temperatures ...

Sturm stops short of calling the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis a conspiracy theory, but he says that it is an example, at least, of what he calls post-consensus: a rejection of objective truth ...

Younger Dryas? The new research shakes up a controversial theory about a big climate shift called the Younger Dryas, when Earth abruptly swung into a glacial period 12,900 years ago.

The alleged mammoth-killing impact is also alleged to have triggered the Younger Dryas. At the time, 12,900 years ago, the continental ice sheets were in full retreat from the last Ice Age, and ...

When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming. Season 3 Episode 29 | 10m 21s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Heated Debate Around Younger Dryas. For decades, scientists have been studying the cause ...