• stadial, often known as the Oldest Dryas. The Oldest Dryas occurred about 1,770 calibrated years before the Younger Dryas and lasted about 400 calibrated...
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  • The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period...
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    Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae...
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    Weichselian glaciation (category Younger Dryas)
    Peninsula and the White Sea were free from ice during the Younger Dryas. Before the Younger Dryas, deglaciation had not been uniform and small ice sheet...
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    Age, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. The LGP is...
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    the Younger Dryas cold spell. The end of the Younger Dryas has been dated to about 9640 BCE (11,654 calendar years BP). The end of the Younger Dryas is...
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  • Magicians of the Gods (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    Hancock seeks an explanation for his catastrophe in the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, suggesting that around 10,800 BC the fragments of...
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    Clovis culture (category Younger Dryas)
    period through the ensuing Middle and Late Paleoindian periods. The Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, or Clovis Comet hypothesis, originally proposed that...
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  • Ancient Apocalypse (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    incorporates ideas from the Comet Research Group, including the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has been comprehensively refuted, and which...
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    attributed to Clovis culture hunting, severe climatic phases like the Younger Dryas, or some combination of the two. The American mastodon has a last recorded...
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