Fire From the Sky · reading guide
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Everything below is derived from this case's own source records — 44 of them — plus a small curated shelf of learning materials. Verification labels say exactly how much checking stands behind each record; nothing here is a recommendation to believe, only to read.
Primary literature30
Papers, preprints, and reports the case draws on — the records to read before trusting any summary, ours included.
- SRC-YDIH-REPORT-2026report · 2026
Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: Evidence, Retractions, and Current Scientific Assessment
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Verified — held in project libraryQualifies ×1no public link on record - SRC-MOORE-CORRECTION-2026paper · 2026
Correction: Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences
Moore, C. R.; West, A.; LeCompte, M. A.; et al. (13 authors total)
- SRC-PLOS-RETRACT-BAFFIN-2026paper · 2026
Retraction: A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay
The PLOS One Editors
- SRC-PLOS-RETRACT-QUARTZ-2026paper · 2026
Retraction: Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex
The PLOS One Editors
- SRC-BAFFIN-2025paper · 2025
RETRACTED: A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay
Moore, C. R.; Tselmovich, V. A.; LeCompte, M. A.; West, A.; et al. (21 authors total)
AI-verified citationjournals.plos.org ↗ - SRC-QUARTZ-2025paper · 2025
RETRACTED: Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex
Kennett, J. P.; LeCompte, M. A.; Moore, C. R.; et al. (18 authors total)
AI-verified citationjournals.plos.org ↗ - SRC-GREEN-2025paper · 2025
A possible volcanic origin for the Greenland ice core Pt anomaly near the Bølling-Allerød/Younger Dryas boundary
Green, C. E.; Baldini, J. U. L.; Brown, R. J.; et al.
- SRC-SWEATMAN-2024paper · 2024
Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Sweatman, M. B.; Powell, J.; West, A.
- SRC-HOLLIDAY-2024paper · 2024
Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's "Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis"
Holliday, V. T.; Daulton, T. L.; Bartlein, P. J.; et al. (13 authors total)
AI-verified citationdoi.org ↗ - SRC-POWELL-2022paper · 2022
Premature rejection in science: The case of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
Powell, J. L.
AI-verified citationdoi.org ↗ - SRC-KENNY-2022paper · 2022
A Late Paleocene age for Greenland's Hiawatha impact structure
Kenny, G. G.; Hyde, W. R.; Storey, M.; et al. (17 authors total)
- SRC-SWEATMAN-2021paper · 2021
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: Review of the impact evidence
Sweatman, M. B.
- SRC-ABBOTT-2021paper · 2021
Volcanic climate forcing preceding the inception of the Younger Dryas: Implications for tracing the Laacher See eruption
Abbott, P. M.; Niemeier, U.; Timmreck, C.; Riede, F.; McConnell, J. R.; Severi, M.; et al.
- SRC-MOORE-AH-2020paper · 2020
Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C
Moore, A. M. T.; Kennett, J. P.; Napier, W. M.; et al. (14 authors total)
- SRC-CHENG-2020paper · 2020
Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics
Cheng, H.; et al. (multi-author)
- SRC-SVENSSON-2020paper · 2020
Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period
Svensson, A.; Dahl-Jensen, D.; Steffensen, J. P.; Blunier, T.; Rasmussen, S. O.; Vinther, B. M.; et al.
- SRC-WOLBACH-2018paper · 2018
Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ~12,800 Years Ago (Parts 1 and 2)
Wolbach, W. S.; Ballard, J. P.; Mayewski, P. A.; et al. (27 and 31 authors)
- SRC-KJAER-2018paper · 2018
A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland
Kjær, K. H.; Larsen, N. K.; Binder, T.; et al. (22 authors total)
- SRC-MOORE-2017paper · 2017
Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences
Moore, C. R.; West, A.; LeCompte, M. A.; et al. (13 authors total)
- SRC-LYNCH-STIEGLITZ-2017paper · 2017
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Abrupt Climate Change
Lynch-Stieglitz, J.
- SRC-KENNETT-2015paper · 2015
Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835–12,735 Cal B.P. for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents
Kennett, J. P.; Kennett, D. J.; Culleton, B. J.; et al. (26 authors total)
- SRC-PETAEV-2013paper · 2013
Large Pt anomaly in the Greenland ice core points to a cataclysm at the onset of Younger Dryas
Petaev, M. I.; Huang, S.; Jacobsen, S. B.; Zindler, A.
- SRC-WITTKE-2013paper · 2013
Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago
Wittke, J. H.; Weaver, J. C.; Bunch, T. E.; et al. (28 authors total)
- SRC-BUNCH-2012paper · 2012
Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago
Bunch, T. E.; Hermes, R. E.; Moore, A. M. T.; et al. (18 authors total)
- SRC-LECOMPTE-2012paper · 2012
Independent evaluation of conflicting microspherule results from different investigations of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
LeCompte, M. A.; Goodyear, A. C.; Demitroff, M. N.; et al. (8 authors total)
- SRC-NAPIER-2010paper · 2010
Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex
Napier, W. M.
- SRC-KENNETT-DJ-2009paper · 2009
Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer
Kennett, D. J.; Kennett, J. P.; West, A.; et al. (9 authors total)
- SRC-FAITH-SUROVELL-2009paper · 2009
Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals
Faith, J. T.; Surovell, T. A.
- SRC-HAYNES-2008paper · 2008
Younger Dryas "black mats" and the Rancholabrean termination in North America
Haynes, C. V., Jr.
- SRC-FIRESTONE-2007paper · 2007
Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling
Firestone, R. B.; West, A.; Kennett, J. P.; et al. (26 authors total)
Critiques & counter-analyses13
Sources whose evidence in this case predominantly undermines the featured hypothesis. Read these with the same seriousness as the supporting work.
- SRC-NANAYOBO-2026paper · 2026
Volcanic forcing of global climate cooling at the Younger Dryas onset preserved in North American sediments
Nana Yobo, L.; et al. (5 authors total)
- SRC-HOLLIDAY-2023paper · 2023
Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)
Holliday, V. T.; Daulton, T. L.; Bartlein, P. J.; et al. (13 authors total)
- SRC-HOLLIDAY-FIRE-2020paper · 2020
Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago, Parts 1 and 2: A Discussion
Holliday, V. T.; Bartlein, P. J.; Scott, A. C.; Marlon, J. R.
- SRC-SUN-2020paper · 2020
Volcanic origin for Younger Dryas geochemical anomalies ca. 12,900 cal B.P.
Sun, N.; Brandon, A. D.; Forman, S. L.; Waters, M. R.; Befus, K. S.
- SRC-HOLLIDAY-2016paper · 2016
A Blind Test of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
Holliday, V. T.; Surovell, T.; Johnson, E.
- SRC-MELTZER-2014paper · 2014
Chronological evidence fails to support claim of an isochronous widespread layer of cosmic impact indicators dated to 12,800 years ago
Meltzer, D. J.; Holliday, V. T.; Cannon, M. D.; Miller, D. S.
- SRC-PIGATI-2012paper · 2012
Accumulation of impact markers in desert wetlands and implications for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Pigati, J. S.; Latorre, C.; Rech, J. A.; et al. (6 authors total)
- SRC-PINTER-2011paper · 2011
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem
Pinter, N.; Scott, A. C.; Daulton, T. L.; et al. (7 authors total)
- SRC-DAULTON-2010paper · 2010
No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger–Dryas sediments to support an impact event
Daulton, T. L.; Pinter, N.; Scott, A. C.
- SRC-HOLLIDAY-MELTZER-2010paper · 2010
The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians
Holliday, V. T.; Meltzer, D. J.
- SRC-SUROVELL-2009paper · 2009
An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis
Surovell, T. A.; Holliday, V. T.; Gingerich, J. A. M.; et al. (9 authors total)
- SRC-MARLON-2009paper · 2009
Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America
Marlon, J. R.; Bartlein, P. J.; Walsh, M. K.; et al. (23 authors total)
- SRC-BUCHANAN-2008paper · 2008
Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis
Buchanan, B.; Collard, M.; Edinborough, K.
Web & commentary1
Webpages, press, and commentary — useful for orientation, weak as evidence.
- SRC-CRG-SITEwebpage · 2026
Comet Research Group — official website
Comet Research Group
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