The Chicxulub impact and its environmental consequences

JV Morgan, TJ Bralower, J Brugger… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The extinction of the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of all living species was almost
certainly caused by a large asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Seismic data acquired …

[图书][B] The Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basin: Depositional evolution and petroleum applications

JW Snedden, WE Galloway - 2019 - books.google.com
The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the
world, with an estimated endowment of 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This book …

Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure

S Goderis, H Sato, L Ferrière, B Schmitz, D Burney… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction is marked globally by elevated
concentrations of iridium, emplaced by a hypervelocity impact event 66 million years ago …

The first day of the Cenozoic

SPS Gulick, TJ Bralower, J Ormö… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Highly expanded Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak
ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)–International Continental …

Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

DA Kring, SM Tikoo, M Schmieder, U Riller… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The~ 180-km-diameter Chicxulub peak-ring crater and~ 240-km multiring basin, produced
by the impact that terminated the Cretaceous, is the largest remaining intact impact basin on …

Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures

U Riller, MH Poelchau, ASP Rae, FM Schulte… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Large meteorite impact structures on the terrestrial bodies of the Solar System contain
pronounced topographic rings, which emerged from uplifted target (crustal) rocks within …

The Nadir crater offshore West Africa: A candidate cretaceous-paleogene impact structure

U Nicholson, VJ Bray, SPS Gulick, B Aduomahor - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Evidence of marine target impacts, binary impact craters, or impact clusters are rare on
Earth. Seismic reflection data from the Guinea Plateau, West Africa, reveal a≥ 8.5-km-wide …

End of the Cretaceous

SPS Gulick - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
The Cretaceous ended when the Chicxulub asteroid struck the Yucatán platform, and all
deposits and landforms generated are earliest Paleocene in age. Drill core from the …

Hydrothermal alteration associated with the Chicxulub impact crater upper peak-ring breccias

SL Simpson, GR Osinski, FJ Longstaffe… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The 66 Ma,∼ 180 km Chicxulub impact structure in the northern Yucatán peninsula
and southern Gulf of Mexico is the best-preserved large impact crater on Earth with a well …

Thermal evolution of the impact‐induced cryomagma chamber beneath Occator crater on Ceres

MA Hesse, JC Castillo‐Rogez - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The faculae in Occator Crater on dwarf planet Ceres are an accumulation of salts
that have been interpreted as cryovolcanic products. Current age estimates from crater …