The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

A sketch of the Chicxulub crater under the sea with the deep seafloor showing the different types of observed bioturbations (Ichnogenera), with photos from the studied cores. Courtesy Francisco J.

When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

Surprisingly, the crater’s age coincides with Mexico’s Chicxulub impact event, which is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. The same timing of the Nadir Crater and the Chicxulub Crater ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...