Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia
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]
Updated: Drilling of dinosaur-killing impact crater explains
2016年11月17日 · 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 ...
New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs
2021年2月15日 · 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 ...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says - CNN
2024年8月16日 · In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity of the asteroid that fueled the planet’s fifth mass extinction event. The dino killer...
Chicxulub Crater dust confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction
2023年11月16日 · The cosmic artillery strike gouged a 125-mile-wide (200 km) crater in Earth surface, lofting plumes of vaporized rock and debris into the air that globally blocked out views of the Sun for years...
What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the …
2019年9月9日 · One of the greatest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck...
Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | New Scientist
The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.
Splosh! How the dinosaur-killing asteroid made Chicxulub crater
2018年10月25日 · The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater formation - is only possible if the hammered rocks can, for a short period, lose their strength and flow in a ...
Drilling into a dinosaur killer - Science News Explores
2017年1月31日 · Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid — or perhaps a comet — hit Earth. It struck off the coast of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. There, it formed a giant crater. This impact is thought to be at least partly responsible for a …
Chicxulub, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs - BBC Sky at …
It’s well established that the Chicxulub crater is the remnants of the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But how much do we really know about the asteroid that fell to Earth, and precisely what caused the crater?