Last global cooling occurred as a result of a meteorite 12,835 years ago – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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The researchers were able to find traces of the fallen meteorite, which could trigger the last glaciation in the world. Geologists have determined that superkataklizm mg occur roughly 12,835 years ago. Report on the results placed in a fairly well-respected US publication «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences».

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Cooling and subsequent distribution of glaciers on Earth happened about 13,000 years ago. Currently in the geological history of the Earth called junior or Younger Dryas.

Experts admit that radical climate changes caused complete extinction of megafauna in North America. That era came to naught giant sloths, megatherium, saber-toothed cats, mastodons and other types.

Kenneth with Richard Firestone got perhaps the first evidence that the “mechanism” of the last planetary cooling impact might start event . In 2007, the lake bottom and in sedimentary rock in Mexico, scientists have found “compelling” evidence that many geologists did not initially believe.

Critics colleagues call the findings of the “Kenneth & amp; Firestone” microbeads and metals are not real evidence of bombardment of Quebec, but rather a consequence of the local geochemical processes.

The counter argument of critics based on the fact that if the impact event would, in reality, the thin layers of “meteor” rocks, scientists around the world would be at all continents.

But now a group of “Kenneth & amp; Firestone” unable to provide proof of that. This “meteor layer” they found on four continents. Anyway, managed to organize excavations in the 12 countries of North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

The US researchers gave 95 percent probability of the existence of “driasovogo meteorite”.

The resulting scientists prescription 12 835 (= / – 100) age coincides with the collapse of a meteorite whose fingerprints they say, as a platinum inclusions found in the ice of Greenland.