This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The discovery of the giant Chicxulub impact crater, buried off the coast of Mexico ...

The model also revealed that the Chicxulub impact, when the Earth's surface and shape are considered, would have likely been too small to cause the Deccan Traps. Advanced Search Home ...

A sketch of the Chicxulub crater under the sea with the deep seafloor showing the different types of observed bioturbations (Ichnogenera), with photos from the studied cores. Courtesy Francisco J.

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression ... perhaps causing the Chicxulub impact that may have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

The Chicxulub impactor ... the team was able to determine “beyond reasonable doubt” that the crater was caused by an impact. ...

The Chicxulub ... asteroid impact might have occurred around the same time, causing additional devastation. New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir ...

The exact timing of the impact is unknown, although it struck at the end of the Cretaceous period, around the same time as ...

Impact breccia: The rock recovered from the Chicxulub Crater tells a story Scientists have a recording of the worst day on Earth; certainly the worst day in the last 66 million years. It takes the ...