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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

hypothesis, was bolstered by the discovery of the 180 km (112 mi) Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in the early 1990s, which...

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...

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...

66 million years ago, around the same time as the Chicxulub crater. Numerical simulations of crater formation suggested a sea impact at the depth of around...

than forty craters of such size. The largest two within the last hundred million years have been linked to two extinction events: Chicxulub for the Cretaceous–Paleogene...

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)...

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...

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

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...

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...