Ejemplos de uso de dryas
1. But Kennett and his colleagues say that they have found these diamonds at the layer of sediment that marks the start of the Younger Dryas.
2. Kennett, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon and the lead author of a paper on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis published today in the journal Science.
3. The era in question coincided with a climatic cold snap known as the Younger Dryas _ dated roughly 11,600–12,800 years ago _ when the sea level was some 200–230 feet lower.
4. What we‘re arguing is that this impact hypothesis explains three major things that have been enigmatic and not particularly resolvable." Those three things are the extinction of the megafauna, the disappearance of the Clovis culture and the climate change of the Younger Dryas.
5. There would have been radiant heat –– it would have been capable, at the very least, of giving him serious burns and, at the maximum, of incinerating him." The hypothesis of a catastrophic impact at the start of the Younger Dryas has incited abundant skepticism in the scientific community.