New Insights Into Extraterrestrial Impacts, Younger Dryas Cooling, Mass Extinction, and the Clovis People

AGU Joint Assembly, 22-25 May 2007, Acapulco, Mexico

Selected Posters

PP43A-01: Evidence for an Extraterrestrial Impact Event 12,900 years ago that Contributed to Megafaunal Extinctions and the Younger Dryas Cooling
*R.B. Firestone, A. West, J.P. Kennett, L. Becker, T.E. Bunch, Zs. Revay, P.H. Schultz, T. Belgya, T , O.J. Dickenson, J.M. Erlandson, A.C. Goodyear, R.S. Harris, G.A. Howard, D.J. Kennett, J.B. Kloosterman, P. Lechler, J. Montgomery, R. Poreda, T. Darrah, S.S. Que Hee, A.R. Smith, A. Stich, W. Topping, J.H. Wittke, and W.S. Wolbach
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PP43A-08: Changes in Paleoindian Projectile Point Densities as Possible Evidence of a Clovis Demographic Collapse in the Southeastern U.S.
*A.C. Goodyear, and A. West
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PP43A-08: Formation of the Carolina Bays: ET Impact vs. Wind-and-Water
*R. Kobres, G.A. Howard, A. West, R.B. Firestone, J.P. Kennett, D. Kimbel, and W. Newell
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Selected Abstracts

PP41A-01: Evidence for a Massive Extraterrestrial Airburst over North America 12.9 ka Ago
*R.B. Firestone, A. West, Zs. Revay, T. Belgya, A. Smith, and S.S. Que Hee
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PP41A-02: Extraterrestrial Markers Found at Clovis Sites Across North America
*A. West, R.B. Firestone, J.P. Kennett, and L. Becker
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PP41A-03: The End Pleistocene Extinction Event - What Caused It?
*L. Becker, R. Poreda, J. Kennett, A. West, and W. Wolbach
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PP41A-04: Mineralogical and Noble Gas Evidence for an ET Impact at the Younger Dryas
*T.H. Darrah, R.J. Poreda, J.P. Kennett, L. Becker, A. West, D.J. Kennett, and J.M. Elrandson
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PP41A-05: Triggering of the Younger Dryas Cooling by Extraterrestrial Impact
*J.P. Kennett, L. Becker, and A. West
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PP42A-02: Exploring the Human Ecology of the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event
*D.J. Kennett, J.M. Erlandson, T.J. Braje, B.J. Culleton
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PP42A-05: Evidence for an Extraterrestrial Impact Origin of the Carolina Bays on the Atlantic Coast of North America
*G.A. Howard, A. West, R.B. Firestone, J.P. Kennett, D. Kimbel, W. Newell,and R. Kobres
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