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Chicxulub Crater (611 words)
Chicxulub is certainly one of the largest impact structure on Earth and if the 300 km size estimate is proven correct, perhaps one of the largest produced in the inner solar system in the last 4 billion years.
Chicxulub breccias and melt-rock have hydrothermal alteration patterns comparable to those of the Sudbury Onaping formation; which may indicate the presence of mineral resources deeper within the structure [ Shuraytz et al., 1994].
It is of utmost importance that the well-preserved Chicxulub impact crater be re-drilled.
Chicxulub Crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1266 words)
They found that there was a nearly perfect ring of sinkholes centered on Puerto Chicxulub that matched the ring Penfield had found in his data.
This has led to the hypothesis that the Chicxulub impact may have been only one of several impacts that happened all at the same time.
Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction
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