Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia
The Chicxulub crater 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 …
Chicxulub crater | Description, Features, Geology, Dinosaur …
Dec 9, 2025 · The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago. The impact and resulting …
Chicxulub Impact Event - Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
The researchers called the crater Chicxulub, a Maya word that roughly translates as “tail of the devil.” The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, has been …
The Chicxulub Crater, Mexico - Geology Science
Dec 4, 2023 · The Chicxulub Crater was formed as a result of a catastrophic impact event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. The impacting …
Chicxulub, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs - BBC Sky at …
Oct 1, 2024 · It’s well established that the Chicxulub crater is the remnants of the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But how much do we really know about the asteroid …
The Chicxulub impact and its environmental consequences
Apr 12, 2022 · Chicxulub is one of the largest types of crater, possessing a topographic ring of hills within the impact basin known as a peak ring 13, 14. As the most pristine large impact …
Unveiling Chicxulub – Yale Scientific Magazine
Dec 18, 2024 · The Chicxulub crater under the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the Chicxulub asteroid left its mark, tells the story of how the mass extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way …
Chicxulub: The End of the Age of Reptiles - harfordastro.org
Apr 30, 2025 · Chicxulub punches through the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico. This instantly vaporizes the asteroid and the incredible energy of the impact is transferred to the Earth. The …
What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the …
Sep 9, 2019 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, …
Chicxulub | Gerta Keller, Professor of Geosciences, Emeritus
The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (KTB) mass extinction is primarily known for the demise of the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub impact, and the frequently rancorous thirty years-old controversy …