Planetary Sciences, Geodynamics, Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and Evolution: Developments and Interconnections

Figure 7

Chicxulub impact crater. (a) Gulf of Mexico and location of Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan platform. (b) Satellite interferometric radar image of Yucatan peninsula (credits: JPL-Caltech NASA), showing surface features associated with the buried crater structure. (c) Bouguer gravity anomaly of the Chicxulub crater (Sharpton et al. [40]). (d) Schematic lithological columns and lateral correlation for deep boreholes in the Chicxulub crater area, plotted as a function of relative distance to crater center (Urrutia-Fucugauchi et al. [27, 41]).

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