The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore...

7,591 inhabitants. Chicxulub Puerto is most famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater, an impact crater discovered by geologists...

population of 4,080 people. Chicxulub is most famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater, an impact crater discovered by geologists...

million years younger than Chicxulub crater in Mexico and the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary). The Chicxulub impact is believed to have...

Look up Chicxulub in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chicxulub may refer to: Chicxulub crater, on the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico Chicxulub Pueblo,...

that the extinction coincided with a large meteorite impact at the Chicxulub crater and the generally accepted scientific theory is that this impact triggered...

asteroid 10 to 15 km (6 to 9 mi) wide, 66 million years ago causing the Chicxulub crater, which devastated the global environment, mainly through a lingering...

this has been strongly disputed, with many authors suggesting that the Chicxulub impact was the primary cause of the extinction. While some scholars suggest...

team developed their hypothesis, but later scientists discovered the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, now considered the likely impact site. Paul...

circular alignment of cenotes overlies the measured rim of the Chicxulub crater. This crater structure, identified from the alignment of cenotes, but also...

overlie part of it. The proposed Shiva crater and other possible impact craters along with the Chicxulub crater have led to the hypothesis that multiple...

earth on the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago and created the Chicxulub crater. The first project to deep-drill and core into one of the largest and...

480 km (300 mi) wide impact crater buried beneath the ice and more than 2.5 times larger than the 180 km (110 mi) Chicxulub crater. Due to the site's location...

Perhaps, in the case of Chicxulub crater, an over-high central peak collapsed into the peak ring. Chicxulub is Earth's only crater to have an intact peak...

boundary about 66 mya around the same time as the Chicxulub crater. Numerical simulations of crater formation suggested a sea impact at the depth of around...

Caribbean Basin. The deeply buried Chicxulub crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes...

the Pliocene. Most recorded impact craters are over 10 million years old, or have widely uncertain ages. The Chicxulub impact has been widely been considered...

years ago, now known to be produced by the impact that formed the Chicxulub crater. Similarly, an iridium anomaly in core samples from the Pacific Ocean...

Jacobsen, S.B.; Boynton, W.V. (1991). "Chicxulub crater: a possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico". Geology...

third-largest crater on Earth, after the 300 km (190 mi) Vredefort impact structure in South Africa, and the 180 km (110 mi) Chicxulub crater under Yucatán...

boundary. In 1991, Alan Hildebrand and William Boynton reported the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico as a probable impact site. While...

asteroid impact cratering, fireballs and meteorite recovery. His work has shed light on the extinction event caused by the Chicxulub asteroid at the end...

Cretaceous age, the rubble from the asteroid impact that created the Chicxulub Crater. The recently discovered Sihil field (1-15,000 million barrels) contains...

Technological Consultative Forum. The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The crater was discovered by Antonio...

been reported from any of the sediment studies performed near the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Setting out to identify past impact...

British seismologist and geophysicist known for her analyses of the Chicxulub crater the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction...

leaving behind the Chicxulub crater. The impactor tore through the Earth's crust, creating huge earthquakes, giant waves, and a crater 180 kilometers (112 mi)...

II: The nature of diatreme, karst and trappean formations, and the chicxulub crater origin". Journal of Mining Science. 48. Springer Link: 55–70. doi:10...

and methane. The most notable example is the bolide that caused the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago. Scientific consensus agrees that this event directly...

approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) wide is thought to have produced the Chicxulub crater and triggered the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that is understood...