Younger Dryas platinum anomaly reported from South Carolina - Open Access paper
New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate
change for Earth, the Conversation, October 22, 2019
https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-that-an-extraterrestrial-collision-12-800-years-ago-triggered-an-abrupt-climate-change-for-earth-118244
the open access paper is:
Moore, C.R., M.J. Brooks, A.C. Goodyear, T.A. Ferguson, A.G. Perrotti, S. Mitra, A. Listecki,
B. King, D.J. Mallinson, C.S. Lane, B. Shapiro, J. Knapp, A. West, D.L. Carlson, W. Wolbach,
T.R. Them, S.M. Harris, and S. Pyne-O???Donnell.
2019. Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a platinum anomaly,
pyrogenic carbon peak, and coprophilous spore decline at 12.8 ka. Scientific Reports
volume 9, Article number: 15121 (2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51552-8
Regardless of how the platinum anomaly is interpreted, White Pond, a Carolina Bay predates
it and the Younger Dryas. Thus, the above paper further supports the idea that the Carolina Bays are not connected to Younger Dryas event as concluded by:
Schaetzl, R.J., Sauck, W., Heinrich, P.V., Colgan, P.M. and Holliday, V.T., 2019. Commentary on Klokocnik, J., Kostelecky, and Bezdek, A. 2019. The putative Saginaw impact structure, Michigan, Lake Huron, in the light of gravity aspects derived from recent EIGEN 6C4 gravity field model. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45: 1220.
A related paper is:
Krause, T.R., Russell, J.M., Zhang, R., Williams, J.W. and Jackson, S.T., 2019. Late Quaternary vegetation, climate, and fire history of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Plain based on a 30,000-yr multi-proxy record from White Pond, South Carolina, USA. Quaternary Research, 91(2), pp.861-880.
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