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The Chicxulub crater (Spanish pronunciation: ... which modified approximately 1.4 × 10 5 km 3 of Earth's crust and lasted for hundreds of thousands of years.
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.
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.
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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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
"The size and damage that would have been wrought by the Chicxulub impact is in agreement with the theory postulated by the late physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, for the extinction of the dinosaurs." I feel this sentence needs a re-write; the proposed damage caused by the impact cannot be in "agreement" with the ...
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