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The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ 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 ]
In 2001–2002, a scientific borehole was drilled near the Haciende Yaxcopoil, known as Yaxopoil-1 (or more commonly Yax-1), to a depth of 1,511 meters (4,957 ft) below the surface, as part of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program. The borehole was cored continuously, passing through 100 meters (330 ft) of impactites.
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 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 .
The top of the melt sheet, which is the, "crater floor" and base of the post-impact sedimentary fill, ranges from 1.2 to 1.6 km below sea level as confirmed by drilling (Gulick et al. 2013:44). Interpretation of geophysical data indicates that the sedimentary fill on top of the melt sheet is as deep as 1.9 km (Gulick et al. 2013:44).
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Location of the Boltysh crater. The Boltysh crater or Bovtyshka crater is a buried impact crater in the Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukraine, [1] near the village of Bovtyshka. The crater is 24 kilometres (15 mi) in diameter and its age of 65.39 ± 0.14/0.16 million years, based on argon-argon dating techniques, less than 1 million years younger than Chicxulub crater in Mexico and the Cretaceous ...
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