Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Excavations in North Dakota reveal fossils of fish and ...

The sediments, fossils and associated impact debris make this an important site for those who study the extinction event that helped wipe-out the dinosaurs.” The Chicxulub impact event occurred at the ...

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 ...

Chicxulub Crater - The impact that changed life on Earth The ... The bottom 20m or so, is dominated by glassy debris. This is the rock that was melted by the heat and pressure of the impact.

The research team's findings were based on analyzing isotopes of ruthenium in geological deposits marking the Chicxulub impact ... techniques were used on impact debris layers." ...

researchers could determine what type of space rock caused each impact. The isotopes of ruthenium within the Chicxulub asteroid’s debris are consistent across all samples, regardless of where ...

In the past, the giant Chicxulub impactor caused the end of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other lifeforms 66 million years ago. Other extinction events included the initial growth of trees, which ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub Impactor, which led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs around 65 ...

Related: Earth vulnerable to major asteroid strike, White House science chief says The larger of the two asteroids, which was still smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs ...

On impact, the research shows, the Chicxulub asteroid - which was more ... from a part of the crater in which rock and debris were deposited just after the asteroid's impact.