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 ...

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.

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...

The discovery of the giant Chicxulub impact crater, buried off the coast of Mexico, unveiled the solution to one of Earth's greatest mysteries--what killed the dinosaurs. Scientists uncovered physical ...

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

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 ...

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 curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the ...

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.