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- Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia
The Chicxulub crater 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 Chicxulub crater: How the world nearly ended in Mexico
Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% of life on Earth
- What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the Earth
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
- Chicxulub Crater - Atlas Obscura
Buried beneath thousands of feet of limestone in the Yucatán Peninsula are the remains of an impact so great that it wiped out the dinosaurs—and more than half of the species on Earth at the
- Chicxulub crater | Description, Features, Geology, Dinosaur Extinction . . .
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago The impact and resulting climate change is believed to have led to the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs
- Chicxulub crater - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chicxulub crater is a large meteorite crater It was probably made by the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and other animals ~65 mya It is partly in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and partly underwater
- Chicxulub Impact Event - Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
The researchers called the crater Chicxulub, a Maya word that roughly translates as “tail of the devil ” The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, has been imaged using geophysical techniques that allow us to visualize underground structures
- A moment that changed Earth - NSF - National Science Foundation
Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid nearly 10 kilometers (6 2 miles) across hit the Earth near what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, close to the current towns of Chicxulub Pueblo and Chicxulub Puerto (after which the resulting crater is named)
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