For instance, the 65-million-year-old Chicxulub crater in Mexico is famously associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs. Similarly, the Chesapeake Bay impact likely had far-reaching effects ...

When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and cometary ... crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 percent ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico ... remnants of large volcanoes thought ...