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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 ]
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...
Unless otherwise specified the source of the list is the Oregon maps of the Smithsonian's 1899 Indian Land Cessions of the United States. [1] Ordered north to south: Point Adams (see Point Adams Light) Tillamook Head (see Tillamook Rock Lighthouse) Cape Falcon (formerly known as False Tillamook, see Oswald West State Park and Cape Falcon Marine ...
Chicxulub Pueblo (Mayan pronunciation: [tʃʼikʃuluɓ] Ch’ik Xulub) is a town, and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. At the census of 2010, the town had a population of 4,080 people. The center of the Chicxulub Impact Crater (approx 21°20'N 89°30'W) is off the Yucatan coast, near Chicxulub Puerto
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. [10] Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. [11] It was formed by a large asteroid or comet about 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 mi) in diameter, [12] [13] the Chicxulub impactor, striking the Earth. The date of the ...
Chicxulub Puerto is most famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater, an impact crater discovered by geologists on the Yucatán Peninsula and extending into the ocean. It was created by the impact some 66 million years ago of the Chicxulub impactor , an asteroid or comet which caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction ...
Crater Lake National Park; Long title: An Act reserving from the public lands in the State of Oregon, as a public park for the benefit of the people of the United States, and for the protection and preservation of the game, fish, timber, and all other natural objects therein, a tract of land herein described, and so forth. Enacted by
Coquille River (Oregon) Corvallis, Oregon; Crater Lake; Crater Lake National Park; D River; Deschutes River; Detroit Dam; Detroit Lake; Devils Lake (Lincoln County, Oregon) Dry Well Creek; Elk River (Oregon) Elkhorn Mountains (Oregon) Grants Pass, Oregon; Hood River (Oregon) Humbug Mountain; Illinois River (Oregon) John Day River (northwestern ...