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--- earth:geohammers:k_bce_events [2018/11/15 00:16]
khavikanum [Younger Dryas, 12.8K BCE]
+++ earth:geohammers:k_bce_events [2019/10/13 13:30]
khavikanum [Younger Dryas, 12.8K BCE]
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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz]]\\
-The smoking gun for a cometary airburst creating massive wildfires and instantly melting a great deal of glacial ice (to shut down the thermohaline current) was found with iridium and platinum in ice core samples.  A tentative crater has been identified in Greenland beneath the Hiawatha Crater.
+The smoking gun for a cometary airburst or impact creating massive wildfires and instantly melting a great deal of glacial ice (to shut down the thermohaline current) was found with iridium and platinum in ice core samples.  A tentative crater has been identified in Greenland beneath the **Hiawatha Crater**.
 [[http://phys.org/news/2013-08-evidence-cosmic-impact-younger-dryas.html]]\\
 [[http://phys.org/news/2015-07-cataclysmic-event-age.html]]\\
 [[http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173]]\\
+A simultaneous VEI 6 in Germany known as Laacher See has been implicated as a factor in the Younger Dryas.
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laacher_See]]\\
 ==== H1 Megadrought, 16.8k BCE ====

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