Tag: Chicxulub
February 24, 2021
Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million…
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2019
Rocks at Asteroid Impact Site Record First Day of Dinosaur Extinction
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet, the impact set wildfires, triggered tsunamis and blasted so much sulfur into the…
Read MoreMay 30, 2018
Life Recovered Rapidly at Impact Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and snuffed out 75…
Read MoreNovember 20, 2017
Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave Like Liquid
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, solid rock flowed like a fluid. The finding was…
Read MoreMarch 28, 2017
After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact, Life Re-Emerged Quickly
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Life came back surprisingly quickly to the site of the impact that killed the dinosaurs, new research found. When a 6-mile (10…
Read MoreNovember 17, 2016
Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave like Liquid and Could Have Provided Habitat for New Life
A study of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out all nonavian dinosaurs and most…
Read MoreMay 14, 2016
No Core Today, But Plenty of History
Today on the ferry to L/B Myrtle the drill manager came to me and my co-travellers with bad news. The drill bit had worn out…
Read MoreMay 13, 2016
Cenote Descent
The Chicxulub impact’s biggest claim to fame is wiping out the dinosaurs. But, as I mentioned in my first post from Merida, the impact also played…
Read MoreMay 12, 2016
Have Geophone, Will Travel – Geophysics On Call
When I’m not on the L/B Myrtle with the Chicxulub research team, I’m in Merida, Mexico, the capital of the Yucatan state. I found…
Read MoreMay 11, 2016
Aboard the Good Ship L/B Myrtle
Yesterday I went to a museum in Merida to learn about the Chicxulub impact. Today I went right to the impact site by boarding the…
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