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  2. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    The most common observed impact rocks are suevites, found in many of the boreholes drilled around the Chicxulub crater. Most of the suevites were resedimented soon after the impact by the resurgence of oceanic water into the crater. This gave rise to a layer of suevite extending from the inner part of the crater out as far as the outer rim. [57]

  3. After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just ...

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    A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

  4. Scientists finally find where the object that wiped out the ...

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    Scientists may have finally found where the object that wiped out the dinosaurs came from.. The mass extinction event that occurred 66 million years ago – the most recent on Earth – came about ...

  5. Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid ...

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    The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind traces of its own origin. Researchers think they know where the Chicxulub impactor came from based on levels of ruthenium.

  6. Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what killed ...

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    It has been a long-held belief that it was the impact of an asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs, ... They found that the dust could have blocked out the sun for up to two years and ...

  7. Alvarez hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Luis Walter Alvarez, left, and his son Walter, right, at the K–T Boundary in Gubbio, Italy, 1981. The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth.

  8. Tanis (fossil site) - Wikipedia

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    The Cretaceous–Paleogene ("K-Pg" or "K-T") extinction event around 66 million years ago wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and many other species. Proposed by Luis and Walter Alvarez , it is now widely accepted that the extinction was caused by a huge asteroid or bolide that impacted Earth in the shallow seas of the Gulf of Mexico , leaving ...

  9. Scientists puzzled by asteroids that hit Earth 35 million ...

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    After the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula more than 30 million years before these asteroids, its explosive energy resulted in irreversible climate change.