Crater on map (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Crater on map

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The crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is located in the Yucatán Peninsula and is called Chicxulub after a nearby town. Part of the crater is offshore and part of it is on land. The crater is buried beneath many layers of rock and sediment. A 2016 mission led by the International Ocean Discovery Program extracted rock cores from the offshore portion of the crater.

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The University of Texas at Austin/Jackson School of Geosciences/ Google Maps

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