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The Chicxulub crater (Spanish: [t͡ʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ 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 ]
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2]
The huge space rock known as the Chicxulub impactor is widely believed to have ended the reign of ... creating the Chicxulub crater near the modern-day town of ... green and 150 million years old.
Chicxulub crater. Tanis (approx.) Chicxulub crater. Tanis (approx.) Location of Tanis and of the Chicxulub crater Left: present day, Right: at impact 66 million years ...
However, in 1991, scientists found that the Chicxulub crater was the right age to have been formed by a massive asteroid strike coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs.
Fischer-Gödde and his colleagues found that, unlike many other impactors over the last 541 million years, the Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs and up to 75% of all life on Earth ...
In 2016, a scientific drilling project drilled deep into the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater, to obtain rock core samples from the impact itself. The discoveries were widely seen as confirming current theories related to both the crater impact, and its effects.
Chicxulub crater. Radar topography reveals the 180 km (110 mi) ring of the crater; ... Eve of Naharon, was carbon-dated to be 13,600 years old. ...