Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018)

Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018) by legulere on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:06PM (#31769134)

How would they have destroyed civilizations without a trace (not even iron/steel being left) without eradicating most animal and plant species at the same time?

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Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018) by ncmncm on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:09AM (#31774037)

Have you looked on the sea floor?

All the choicest real estate of the time is under water now.

30+ genera of North American large animals were wiped out. Horses, camels, hippos, dire wolves, mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, sabertooths, giant beavers. The whole continent burned. There were extinctions in South America and Africa, too.

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Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018) by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:32AM (#31775550)

Also Doggerland in Europe, the land which connected Northern Europe with the British Isle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

Seems to me this could be the root of the Viking legends of Valhalla, the eternal hunting grounds, because at the time it existed it had to be one fucking fertile marshland.

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