Chicxulub Crater Seismic Survey Prepares Way for Future Drilling

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Sep 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005eostr..86..325m&link_type=abstract

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 86, Issue 36, p. 325-328

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Exploration Geophysics: Seismic Methods (3025, 7294), Seismology: Continental Crust (1219)

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Sixty-five million years ago, a large meteorite hit the Earth and formed the ~200-km-wide Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico. The well-known, massive extinction event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary appears to have been caused, at least in part, by this impact. In the first few seconds after impact the surface of the Earth was pushed down to form a cavity ~35 km deep, and in the next few hundred seconds this cavity collapsed to form a multi-ring basin with an inner peak ring. To examine the rings and subsurface structure of this superbly preserved impact crater, a seismic experiment was shot across the crater in January and February 2005 by a team of scientists from Mexico, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Figure 1).

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