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Younger Dryas Impactor Hypothesis Crashes and Burns

Source info:

Author: Will Baird
Date: 2011-05-26 18:30:00
Blog: The Dragon’s Tales
URL: http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2011/05/younger-dryas-impactor-hypothesis.html

Summary:

It seemed like such an elegant answer to an age-old mystery: the disappearance of what are arguably North America’s first people. A speeding comet nearly 13,000 years ago was the culprit, the theory goes, spraying ice and rocks across the continent, killing the Clovis people and the mammoths they fed on, and plunging the region into a deep chill. The idea so captivated the public that three

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Geographic context:

LocationCountryLatitudeLongitude
ClovisUS34.4052-103.205

Keywords:

bad science, burns, chill, clovis people, comet, continent, crashes, culprit, disappearance, elegant answer, hypothesis, mammoths, mystery, north america, rocks, younger dryas

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