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The '''Younger Dryas impact hypothesis''' or '''Clovis comet hypothesis''' is the [[hypothesis|hypothesized]] large [[air burst]] or earth [[impact event|impact]] of an object or objects from [[outer space]] that initiated the [[Younger Dryas]] cold period about 12,900&nbsp;[[Before Present|BP]] [[Radiocarbon dating#Calibration|calibrated]] (10,900&nbsp;BP uncalibrated) years ago.<ref name="PNAS07A">{{cite journal |author=Firestone RB, West A, Kennett JP, ''et al.'' |title=Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=104 |issue=41 |pages=16016–21 |year=2007 |month=October |pmid=17901202 |pmc=1994902 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0706977104 |url=|bibcode = 2007PNAS..10416016F }}</ref><ref name=Bunch>{{cite journal |author=Bunch TE, Hermes RE, Moore AM, ''et al.'' |title=Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago |journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A |volume= 109|issue= 28|pages= E1903–12|year=2012 |month=June |pmid=22711809 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1204453109 |url=|bibcode = 2012PNAS..109E1903B }}</ref> The hypothesis has been largely challenged by research that argued that most of the conclusions cannot be repeated by other scientists, misinterpretation of data, and the lack of confirmatory evidence.<ref>{{cite journal|doi= 10.1126/science.329.5996.1140 |title= Mammoth-Killer Impact Flunks Out |journal=Science|pages= 1140–1|issue= 5996 |volume= 329 |date= 3 September 2010|pmid= 20813931 |bibcode=2010Sci...329.1140K|last1= Kerr|first1= R. A.}}</ref><ref name="Pinter">{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.005|title=The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem|year=2011|last1=Pinter|first1=Nicholas|last2=Scott|first2=Andrew C.|last3=Daulton|first3=Tyrone L.|last4=Podoll|first4=Andrew|last5=Koeberl|first5=Christian|last6=Anderson|first6=R. Scott|last7=Ishman|first7=Scott E.|journal=Earth-Science Reviews|volume=106|issue=3–4|pages=247|bibcode = 2011ESRv..106..247P }}</ref><ref name=Pigati/>
The '''Younger Dryas impact hypothesis''' or '''Clovis comet hypothesis''' is the [[hypothesis|hypothesized]] large [[air burst]] or earth [[impact event|impact]] of an object or objects from [[outer space]] that initiated the [[Younger Dryas]] cold period about 12,900&nbsp;[[Before Present|BP]] [[Radiocarbon dating#Calibration|calibrated]] (10,900&nbsp;BP uncalibrated) years ago.<ref name="PNAS07A">{{cite journal |author=Firestone RB, West A, Kennett JP, ''et al.'' |title=Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=104 |issue=41 |pages=16016–21 |year=2007 |month=October |pmid=17901202 |pmc=1994902 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0706977104 |url=|bibcode = 2007PNAS..10416016F }}</ref><ref name=Bunch>{{cite journal |author=Bunch TE, Hermes RE, Moore AM, ''et al.'' |title=Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago |journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A |volume= 109|issue= 28|pages= E1903–12|year=2012 |month=June |pmid=22711809 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1204453109 |url=|bibcode = 2012PNAS..109E1903B }}</ref> The hypothesis has been largely challenged by research that stated that most of the conclusions cannot be repeated by other scientists, misinterpretation of data, and the lack of confirmatory evidence.<ref>{{cite journal|doi= 10.1126/science.329.5996.1140 |title= Mammoth-Killer Impact Flunks Out |journal=Science|pages= 1140–1|issue= 5996 |volume= 329 |date= 3 September 2010|pmid= 20813931 |bibcode=2010Sci...329.1140K|last1= Kerr|first1= R. A.}}</ref><ref name="Pinter">{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.005|title=The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem|year=2011|last1=Pinter|first1=Nicholas|last2=Scott|first2=Andrew C.|last3=Daulton|first3=Tyrone L.|last4=Podoll|first4=Andrew|last5=Koeberl|first5=Christian|last6=Anderson|first6=R. Scott|last7=Ishman|first7=Scott E.|journal=Earth-Science Reviews|volume=106|issue=3–4|pages=247|bibcode = 2011ESRv..106..247P }}</ref><ref name=Pigati/>


The hypothesized impact event scenario stated that the air burst(s) or impact(s) of a swarm of [[Chondrite#Carbonaceous_chondrites|carbonaceous chondrites]] or [[comet]] fragments set areas of the [[North American]] continent on fire, causing the [[Quaternary extinction event|extinction of most of the megafauna]] in [[North America]] and the demise of the North American [[Clovis culture]] after the [[last glacial period]].<ref name= "Kennett"/> The Younger Dryas ice age lasted for about 1,200 years before the climate warmed again. This swarm is hypothesized to have exploded above or possibly on the [[Laurentide Ice Sheet]] in the region of the [[Great Lakes]], though no impact crater has been yet identified. An airburst would have been similar to but orders of magnitude larger than the [[Tunguska event]] of 1908. The hypothesis proposed that animal and human life in North America not directly killed by the blast or the resulting coast-to-coast [[wildfire]]s would have likely starved on the burned surface of the continent.
The hypothesized impact event scenario stated that the air burst(s) or impact(s) of a swarm of [[Chondrite#Carbonaceous_chondrites|carbonaceous chondrites]] or [[comet]] fragments set areas of the [[North American]] continent on fire, causing the [[Quaternary extinction event|extinction of most of the megafauna]] in [[North America]] and the demise of the North American [[Clovis culture]] after the [[last glacial period]].<ref name= "Kennett"/> The Younger Dryas ice age lasted for about 1,200 years before the climate warmed again. This swarm is hypothesized to have exploded above or possibly on the [[Laurentide Ice Sheet]] in the region of the [[Great Lakes]], though no impact crater has been yet identified. An airburst would have been similar to but orders of magnitude larger than the [[Tunguska event]] of 1908. The hypothesis proposed that animal and human life in North America not directly killed by the blast or the resulting coast-to-coast [[wildfire]]s would have likely starved on the burned surface of the continent.

Revision as of 19:17, 20 September 2012

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis or Clovis comet hypothesis is the hypothesized large air burst or earth impact of an object or objects from outer space that initiated the Younger Dryas cold period about 12,900 BP calibrated (10,900 BP uncalibrated) years ago.[1][2] The hypothesis has been largely challenged by research that stated that most of the conclusions cannot be repeated by other scientists, misinterpretation of data, and the lack of confirmatory evidence.[3][4][5]

The hypothesized impact event scenario stated that the air burst(s) or impact(s) of a swarm of carbonaceous chondrites or comet fragments set areas of the North American continent on fire, causing the extinction of most of the megafauna in North America and the demise of the North American Clovis culture after the last glacial period.[6] The Younger Dryas ice age lasted for about 1,200 years before the climate warmed again. This swarm is hypothesized to have exploded above or possibly on the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the region of the Great Lakes, though no impact crater has been yet identified. An airburst would have been similar to but orders of magnitude larger than the Tunguska event of 1908. The hypothesis proposed that animal and human life in North America not directly killed by the blast or the resulting coast-to-coast wildfires would have likely starved on the burned surface of the continent.

Evidence

The evidence claimed for an impact event includes a charred carbon-rich layer of soil that has been found at some 50 Clovis-dated sites across the continent. The layer contains unusual materials (nanodiamonds, metallic microspherules, carbon spherules, magnetic spherules, iridium, charcoal, soot, and fullerenes enriched in helium-3) interpreted as evidence of an impact event, at the very bottom of the black mat of organic material that marks the beginning of the Younger Dryas,[7] and is claimed that it cannot be explained by volcanic, anthropogenic, and other natural processes.[2] However, nearly all of this evidence was found to be non-reproducible and has been dismissed as support for the hypothesis.[4][8]

Recent research has been reported that at Lake Cuitzeo in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato evidence supporting the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis was found in lake bed cores dating to 12,900 BP. The evidence included properly identified nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, and magnetic spherules. Multiple analyses demonstrated the presence of three allotropes of nanodiamond: n-diamond, i-carbon, and hexagonal nanodiamond (lonsdaleite). Multiple hypotheses were examined to account for these observations, though none were believed to be terrestrial. Lonsdaleite occurs naturally in asteroids and cosmic dust and as a result of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth, including the Tunguska air burst event of 1908. The analysis of the study has not been confirmed or repeated by other researchers.[9] Lonsdaleite has been made artificially in laboratories.[10] Several researchers have criticized the conclusions for incorrect aging of the sediments,[11] an inconsistent hypothesis that made it difficult to predict the type and size of bolide,[12] lack of proper identification of lonsdaleite,[13] confusing an extraterrestrial impact with other causes such as fire,[14] and for inconsistent use of the carbon spherule "proxy."[15]

Naturally occurring lonsdaleite has also been identified in non-bolide diamond placer deposits in the Sakha Republic.[16] Nanodiamonds can be created in laboratories from tequila,[17] which implies that they can develop in the absence of bolide impacts.

Consequences of hypothetical impact

It is conjectured that this impact event brought about the extinction of many North American Pleistocene megafauna. These animals included camels, mammoths, the giant short-faced bear and numerous other species.[18] The markers for the impact event also appear at the end of the Clovis culture.[19]

History of the hypothesis

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Forest destroyed by the prototypical Tunguska airburst event

The initial description of this hypothesis was published in 2007.[7] Later that year, an additional study revealed that the impact event may have led to an immediate decline in human populations in North America at that time.[1]

Additional data supporting the synchronous nature of the black mat was published. The authors stated that the data required further analysis, and independent analysis of other Clovis sites for verification of this evidence. The authors stated that they remained skeptical of the bolide impact hypothesis as the cause of the Younger Dryas and the megafaunal extinction. They also concluded that "something major happened at 10,900 BP, approximately 2000 years later than the presumptive impact.[20]

Transmission electron microscopy evidence showing nanodiamonds from the geologic moment of the event was published in the journal Science.[21] Also, in the same issue, D.J. Kennett reported that the nano-diamonds were evidence for bolide impacts from a rare swarm of carbonaceous chondrites or comets at the start of Younger Dryas, resulting from multiple airbursts and surface impacts. This resulted in substantial loss of plant life, megafauna, and other animals.[6] This study has been strongly disputed by other scientists, which included several accusations of misconduct and past criminal activities of one of the authors.[22]

The conclusions could not be repeated, and further research has suggested that the there were no nanodiamonds found,[23] and the supposed spherules were, in fact, either fungus or insect feces.[24]

Criticism

A study of Paleoindian demography found no evidence of a population decline among the Paleoindians at 12,900 ± 100 BP, which was inconsistent with predictions of an impact event.[25] The suggested that the hypothesis would probably need to be revised.[26][27] There is also no evidence of continent-wide wildfires at any time during terminal Pleistocene deglaciation,[28] along with evidence that most larger wildfires had a human origin,[28] which calls into question the origin of the "black mat."[29] Iridium, magnetic minerals, microspherules, carbon, and nanodiamonds are all subject to differing interpretations as to their nature and origin, and may be explained in many cases by purely terrestrial or non-catastrophic factors.[30]

Since it is assumed the effects of the putative impact on Earth's biota would have been brief, all extinctions caused by the impact should have occurred simultaneously. However, there is much evidence that the megafaunal extinctions that occurred across northern Eurasia, North America and South America at the end of the Pleistocene were not synchronous. The extinctions in South America appear to have occurred at least 400 years after the extinctions in North America.[18][31][32] The extinction of woolly mammoths in Siberia also appears to have occurred later than in North America.[18] A greater disparity in extinction timings is apparent in island megafaunal extinctions that lagged nearby continental extinctions by thousands of years; examples include the survival of woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island, Russia, until 3700 BP,[18][31][33] and the survival of ground sloths in the Antilles,[34] the Caribbean, until 4700 cal BP.[18] The Australian megafaunal extinctions occurred approximately 30,000 years earlier than the hypothetical Younger Dryas event.[35]

The megafaunal extinction pattern observed in North America poses a problem for the bolide impact scenario, since it raises the question why large mammals should be preferentially exterminated over small mammals or other vertebrates.[36] Additionally, some extant megafaunal species such as bison and Brown bear seem to have been little affected by the extinction event, while the environmental devastation caused by a bolide impact would not be expected to discriminate.[18] Also, it appears that there was collapse in North American megafaunal population from 14,800 to 13,700 BP, well before the date of the hypothetical extraterrestrial impact,[37] possibly from anthropogenic activities, including hunting.[19]

Scientists have asserted that the carbon spherules originated as fungal structures and/or insect fecal pellets,[24] and that the claimed nanodiamonds are actually misidentified graphene and graphene/graphane oxide aggregates.[23][38] An analysis of a similar Younger Dryas boundary layer in Belgium yielded carbon crystalline structures such as nanodiamonds, but the authors concluded that also did not show unique evidence for a bolide impact.[39] Researchers have also have not found any extraterrestrial platinum group metals in the boundary layer which would be inconsistent with the hypothesized impact event.[40] Further independent analysis of were unable to confirm prior claims of magnetic particles and microspherules, concluding that there was no evidence for a Younger Dryas impact event.[41]

Other research has shown no support for the impact hypothesis. One group examined carbon-14 dates for charcoal particles that showed wildfires occurred well after the proposed impact date, and the glass-like carbon was produced by wildfires and no lonsdaleite was found.[8]

Research published in 2012 has shown that the so-called "black mats" are easily explained by typical earth processes in wetland environments.[5] The study of black mats, that are common in prehistorical wetland deposits which represent shallow marshlands, that were from 6000 to 40,000 years ago in the southwestern USA and Atacama Desert in Chile, showed elevated concentrations of iridium and magnetic sediments, magnetic spherules and titanomagnetite grains. It was suggested that because these markers are found within or at the base of black mats, irrespective of age or location, suggests that these markers arise from processes common to wetland systems, and probably not as a result of catastrophic bolide impacts.[5]

See also

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