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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, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto ). [ 3 ]
Chicxulub Pueblo (Mayan pronunciation: [tʃʼikʃuluɓ] Ch’ik Xulub) is a town, and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. At the census of 2010, the town had a population of 4,080 people. The center of the Chicxulub Impact Crater (approx 21°20'N 89°30'W) is off the Yucatan coast, near Chicxulub Puerto
Chicxulub Crater is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula, with its center located near the town of Chicxulub, Yucatán, Mexico.The crater is over 180 kilometers (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world; the asteroid or comet whose impact formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter.
Evidence at the Chicxulub crater supports the notion that the crash would have been devastating enough to send deadly vaporized rock and gas into the atmosphere, filling the Earth with dust ...
However, in 1991, scientists found that the Chicxulub crater was the right age to have been formed by a massive asteroid strike coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs. Over the years ...
Chicxulub Puerto (IPA: [tʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ) is a small coastal town in Progreso Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is located on the Gulf of Mexico , in the northwestern region of the state about 8 km (5 mi) east of the city port of Progreso , the municipality seat, and 42 km (26 mi) north of the city of Mérida , the state capital.
Further research identified the giant Chicxulub crater, buried under Chicxulub on the coast of Yucatán, as the source of the K–Pg boundary clay. Identified in 1990 [14] based on work by geophysicist Glen Penfield in 1978, the crater is oval, with an average diameter of roughly 180 km (110 mi), about the size calculated by the Alvarez team.
Chicxulub Pueblo Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (196.72 km 2) of land and located roughly 25 km north of the city of Mérida. [2] The area is directly onshore of the epicenter of the Chicxulub crater .