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The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...
Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% of life on Earth.
The Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, one of the most significant craters, is known for its association with the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Amid all the rhetoric, however, it became clear to Hermann that few people really understood the uniqueness of the Gulf itself. After all, it’s the place where a meteor struck the Earth 66 ...
In the most famous cosmic catastrophe known to popular imagination, the Chicxulub Impactor ended the reign of the reptiles 66 million years ago, generating a massive crater that now rests underneath ...
A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico.
A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico. A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub ...
To garner the results of this study, the research team looked at the impacts of two major asteroids from the late Eocene epoch (about 38 million years to 33 million years ago). One created the 60-mile ...
The one seen in the Gulf of Mexico was a reasonably big one, which it would have to be as it resulted from the impact that killed the dinosaurs.
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