Sentences with phrase «remnants of an impact crater»
Since then he has assembled an assortment of data supporting his idea that the remnants of an impact crater measuring 40 miles across can be found in the desert and its surroundings.
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The Chicxulub crater, the remnant of the impact discovered buried under Mexico's Yucatan peninsula a decade ago, is at least 180 kilometres across, and dates back to the Cretaceous - Tertiary (K / T) boundary, a geological layer of material laid...
This month, from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists will try to sink a diamond - tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth.