Chicxulub Crater
Chicxulub Crater is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan peninsula, with its center located approximately underneath the town of Chicxulub, Yucatán, Mexico. Later investigations suggested that this impact structure is dated from the late Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago. The meteorite's estimated size is about 10 km (6 mi) in diameter, releasing an estimated 4.3×1023 joules of energy (equivalent to 191,793 gigatons of TNT) on impact.
External links
- Mystery of the Chicxulub Crater by Robert Roy Britt
- Images from geological surveys
- Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction
- Satellite image of the region (from Google Maps)
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