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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) · 2025

AI-verified citationSRC-QUARTZ-2025
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PLOS ONE 20(9): e0319840, published 2025-09-10; retracted 2026-02-11. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319840
url
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319840
verification note
Confirmed via Crossref and the PLOS ONE page (2026-08-22 batch), including the retracted status and retraction linkage.
reliability notes
  • RETRACTED — results and conclusions cannot be relied upon as published.
  • Disclosed Comet Research Group funding and CRG-officer authorship.

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