Michail I. Petaev^a,b, Shichun Huang^a, Stein B. Jacobsen^a and Alan Zindler^a

^aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; and
^bSolar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138

Besides providing additional arguments against the Pt depositing event (1) as a cause of the Younger Dryas cooling, Boslough’s letter (2) raises an important question about the scale of this event. Indeed, a localized deposition of Pt by the Cape York meteorite shower is an attractive hypothesis considered by us initially (3), but abandoned because of (i) a large difference in the …

Reference
Petaev MI, Huang S, Jacobsen SB and Zindler A (2013) Reply to Boslough: Is Greenland Pt anomaly global or local?. PNAS 110:E5036.
[doi:10.1073/pnas.1320772111]

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