Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo …
Chicxulub crater | Description, Features, Geology, Dinosaur ...
Sep 6, 2025 · The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago. The impact and resulting …
What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit ...
Sep 9, 2019 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, …
The Chicxulub Crater - yucatantoday.com
Apr 2, 2025 · Discover the Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico. Explore the impact of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, its cenotes, and museums. A fascinating geological history!
The Chicxulub Crater, Mexico - Geology Science
Dec 5, 2023 · The Chicxulub Crater was formed as a result of a catastrophic impact event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. The impacting …
Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs - New Scientist
At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 …
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was about the size of ...
Sep 22, 2025 · Hildebrand co-authored the paper that published the discovery of the Chicxulub crater in 1991, and that work provided major evidence linking the crater's connection to the …