However, a number of these sediments do not date to the Younger Dryas period. A close-up of the black mats seen in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. (Image credit: Photograph courtesy of Claudio ...

The event is called the Younger Dryas period. As you can see from the graph here, all indications are that the earth was emerging from a glacial period about 15,000 years ago, with temperatures ...

The alleged mammoth-killing impact is also alleged to have triggered the Younger Dryas. At the time, 12,900 years ago, the continental ice sheets were in full retreat from the last Ice Age, and ...

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At the end of the Pleistocene period, approximately 12,800 years ago — give or take a few centuries — a cosmic impact triggered an abrupt cooling episode that earth scientists refer to as the ...

An impact crater spotted in 2015 in Greenland is far too old to be connected to the Younger Dryas cold snap from 13,000 years ago, a study suggests. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

Between 15,000 and 11,000 years ago, the last ice age ended, then it came back, then it ended again. Coincident with the return of the ice age, a period known as the Younger Dryas, many large ...

To better understand the mechanisms of the Younger Dryas event, which induced extreme climate change at the end of the last Ice Age of the Pleistocene Epoch, researchers analyzed the isotopic ...

Geochemical signatures found in sediments from a Texas cave suggest the Younger Dryas, a period of global cooling that occurred 13,000 years ago, was caused by Earth-based processes, not an ...

The new research shakes up a controversial theory about a big climate shift called the Younger Dryas, when Earth abruptly swung into a glacial period 12,900 years ago.