Uncovering the Secrets of the Chicxulub Crater

希克苏鲁伯陨石坑（Chicxulub Crater），位于墨西哥尤卡坦半岛发现的陨石坑撞击遗迹，曾经是地球最大的陨石坑（发现最大的陨石坑是在数百万年厚重的冰床下面发现的有史以来最大的陨石坑：威尔克斯地陨石坑，这个宽为483公里的陨石坑有2.5亿年的历史了）。

Crater Formation: The impact would have created a massive crater, known as the Chicxulub Crater, with a diameter of over 150 kilometers (about 93 miles). The immediate area around the impact site would have experienced extreme geological disturbances.

The Chicxulub Crater is one of the largest impact craters on Earth, the only one with an unequivocal peak ring, and the only one linked to a mass extinction. These are the first cores from the peak ring of the Chicxulub Crater.

In this Review, we show how studying the impact site at Chicxulub has advanced our understanding of formation of large craters and the environmental and palaeontological consequences of this...

The Chicxulub crater, buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, was identified in 1990 as a giant impact feature – some 150km across and 20km deep (although by now well filled-in with sediments).

希克蘇魯伯隕石坑 （英語： Chicxulub crater；西班牙語： Cráter de Chicxulub），又譯 奇虛樂隕石坑 或 契克蘇勒伯隕石坑，是一個位於 墨西哥 猶加敦半島 的撞擊 隕石坑，埋藏在地表之下。