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]
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...
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 ...
Chicxulub Crater dust confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction
2023年11月16日 · In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust,...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says - CNN
2024年8月16日 · Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftereffects of the...
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 ...
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.
Chicxulub Crater and Ring of Cenotes
It has been known for almost 40 years that a large meteorite struck the Earth around 66 million years ago in a place in southern Mexico that we call Chicxulub, in the Yucatán Peninsula. It was about the same time that the large dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth.
Asteroid dust in Chicxulub crater seals deal on dino extinction
2021年3月3日 · In February 2021 scientists announced the discovery of asteroid dust in the Yucatan’s famous Chicxulub crater, which has been linked for years to the dinosaurs’ extinction 66 million years...
Chicxulub Science Museum – IICEAC
Chicxulub was formed ~66 million years ago by an asteroid impact on the Yucatan carbonate platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The impact excavated a deep cavity into the crust, with ejection of large volumes of fragmented rocks and dust that spread at the top of the atmosphere and caused global affectation of the climate and environment.