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

James P. Kennett, Malcolm A. LeCompte, Christopher R. Moore, Gunther Kletetschka, John R. Johnson, Wendy S. Wolbach, Siddhartha Mitra, Abigail Maiorana-Boutilier, Victor Adedeji, Marc D. Young, Timothy Witwer, Kurt Langworthy, Joshua J. Razink, Valerie Brogden, Brian van Devener, Jesus Paulo Perez, Randy Polson, Allen West

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319840
Published: 2025-09-10
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Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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@article{allodium:10.1371/journal.pone.0319840,
  title = {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},
  author = {James P. Kennett and Malcolm A. LeCompte and Christopher R. Moore and Gunther Kletetschka and John R. Johnson and Wendy S. Wolbach and Siddhartha Mitra and Abigail Maiorana-Boutilier and Victor Adedeji and Marc D. Young and Timothy Witwer and Kurt Langworthy and Joshua J. Razink and Valerie Brogden and Brian van Devener and Jesus Paulo Perez and Randy Polson and Allen West},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {PLOS One},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0319840},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319840}
}

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AU  - Malcolm A. LeCompte
AU  - Christopher R. Moore
AU  - Gunther Kletetschka
AU  - John R. Johnson
AU  - Wendy S. Wolbach
AU  - Siddhartha Mitra
AU  - Abigail Maiorana-Boutilier
AU  - Victor Adedeji
AU  - Marc D. Young
AU  - Timothy Witwer
AU  - Kurt Langworthy
AU  - Joshua J. Razink
AU  - Valerie Brogden
AU  - Brian van Devener
AU  - Jesus Paulo Perez
AU  - Randy Polson
AU  - Allen West
PY  - 2025
JO  - PLOS One
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0319840
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Kennett, J. P., LeCompte, M. A., Moore, C. R., Kletetschka, G., Johnson, J. R., Wolbach, W. S., Mitra, S., Maiorana-Boutilier, A., Adedeji, V., Young, M. D., Witwer, T., Langworthy, K., Razink, J. J., Brogden, V., Devener, B. V., Perez, J. P., Polson, R., & West, A. (2025). 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. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319840

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