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Chicxulub crater (/tʃiːkʃuːˈluːb/ ch****-shoo-LOOB; Spanish: [tʃikʃuˈlub] ) is an
impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán
Peninsula in Mexico....
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asteroid 10 to 15 km (6 to 9 mi) wide, 66 million
years ago
causing the
Chicxulub crater,
which devastated the
global environment,
mainly through a lingering...
- Look up
Chicxulub in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Chicxulub may
refer to:
Chicxulub crater, on the Yucatán Peninsula, in
Mexico Chicxulub Pueblo,...
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Chicxulub Pueblo (Mayan pronunciation: [tʃʼikʃuluɓ] Ch’ik Xulub) is a town, and
surrounding muni****lity of the same name, in the
Mexican state of Yucatán...
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Chicxulub Puerto (Spanish: [tʃikʃuˈlub ˈpweɾto] ) is a
small coastal town in
Progreso Muni****lity in the
Mexican state of Yucatán. It is
located on the...
- this has been
strongly disputed, with many
authors suggesting that the
Chicxulub impact was the
primary cause of the extinction.
While some
scholars suggest...
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exists that the
extinction coincided with a
large meteorite impact at the
Chicxulub crater and the
generally accepted scientific theory is that this impact...
- the
Chicxulub impact—caused the
extinction were
usually linked to the view that the
extinction was gradual.
Prior to the
discovery of the
Chicxulub crater...
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Evidence indicates that the
asteroid fell in the Yucatán Peninsula, at
Chicxulub, Mexico. The
hypothesis is
named after the father-and-son team of scientists...
- have also been
implicated in
several m**** extinctions. The
prehistoric Chicxulub impact, 66
million years ago, is
believed to not only be the
cause of...
