It is a huge buried impact crater that is called chicxulub a maya word that roughly translates as tail of the devil the crater now buried beneath kilometer thick sediment has been imaged using new geophysical techniques. Researchers finally located the impact site on mexico s yucatán peninsula. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the cretatious tertiary extinction the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then.
This shaded relief image of mexico s yucatan peninsula show a subtle but unmistakable indication of the chicxulub impact crater. The massive chicxulub crater on mexico s yucatán peninsula is the fingerprint of a killer probably responsible for the destruction of more than 75 percent of life on earth including all. The original petroleum exploration borehole locations c1 s1 and y6 are shown where intermittent core was recovered.
A black circle outlines the 180 kilometer diameter crater. The subsurface structure of the chicxulub crater can be seen in a gravity map of the northwestern margin of the yucatán peninsula. Chicxulub crater the chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the yucatán peninsula in mexico its center is located offshore near the town of chicxulub after which the crater is named.
One place that. The impact event that formed the chicxulub crater yucatán peninsula méxico caused the extinction of 75 of species on earth 66 million years ago including non avian dinosaurs. It was formed by a large asteroid or comet about 11 to 81 kilometers in diameter the chicxulub impactor striking the earth.
Its center is located near the town of chicxulub after which the crater is named. The chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the yucatán peninsula in mexico. The buried structure which measures at least 180 km 112 miles across is thought to be the scar remaining from the impact 66 million years ago of an asteroid or comet measuring perhaps 10 km.
Computer generated image of chicxulub crater chicxulub crater on the northern coast of the yucatán peninsula in mexico in a computer generated image synthesized from gravity and magnetic field data. In 1978 geophysicists glen penfield and antonio camargo worked for the mexican state oil company pemex as part of an aerial magnetic survey of the gulf of mexico just north of the yucatan peninsula. The crater was just recently discovered.
Chicxulub impact location map.
Yucatan peninsula aerial chicxulub crater. The chicxulub crater ˈ tʃ iː k ʃ ʊ l uː b. Tʃʼikʃuluɓ is an impact crater buried underneath the yucatán peninsula in mexico. Its center is located offshore near the town of chicxulub after which the crater is named. It was formed when a large asteroid or comet about 11 to 81 kilometers 6 8 to 50 3 miles in diameter known as the chicxulub impactor struck the earth.
It was formed when a large asteroid or comet about 11 to 81 kilometers 6 8 to 50 3 miles in diameter known as the chicxulub impactor struck the earth. Its center is located offshore near the town of chicxulub after which the crater is named. Tʃʼikʃuluɓ is an impact crater buried underneath the yucatán peninsula in mexico.
The chicxulub crater ˈ tʃ iː k ʃ ʊ l uː b.
