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Morgan, J., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Gulick, S., Christeson, G., Barton, P., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M. and Melosh, J. (2005). Chicxulub Crater Seismic Survey prepares way for future drilling. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 86: doi: 10.1029/2005EO360001. issn: 0096-3941. |
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Sixty-five million years ago, a large meteorite hit the Earth and formed the ˜200-km-wide Chicxulub crater in Yucat¿n, 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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Keywords
Exploration Geophysics, Seismic methods (3025, 7294), Seismology, Continental crust |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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