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The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto). [3]
Sep 9, 2019 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction.
Nov 12, 2018 · Chicxulub Puerto, Mexico, is the centre of the impact crater that scientists believe was made when the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs smashed into the Earth’s surface.
Feb 15, 2021 · The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s known, was a plummeting asteroid or comet that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end, scientists say, by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of ...
Sep 9, 2019 · In an instant, the Chicxulub impact forever changed life on Earth—blasting out a huge crater, vaporizing and flinging up tons of rock, and devastating plant and animal life.
Oct 25, 2018 · Chicxulub Crater - The impact that changed life on Earth. NASA. The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies under the Yucatan Peninsula itself, but the inner peak ring is best accessed...
Feb 22, 2010 · Discover Chicxulub Crater in Chicxulub, Mexico: The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.
Nov 17, 2016 · UPDATE: Today, scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into Chicxulub crater, the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Their discovery of shocked, granite rocks from deep in the crust placed "out of order" on top of sedimentary ...
Jun 11, 2016 · The identification of Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico during the 1990s then gave scientists an accurate idea of the “when” and the “where.” But exactly how the fallout killed off so much...
The Chicxulub crater is not visible at the Earth’s surface like the famous Meteor Crater of Arizona. There are, however, two surface expressions of the crater. Radar measurements captured from one of NASA’s space shuttles detected a subtle depression in the sediments that bury the crater.
