Chicxulub and the exploration of large peak-ring impact craters through scientific drilling

Copyright 2017, The Geological Society of America. The Chicxulub crater is the only wellpreserved peak-ring crater on Earth and linked, famously, to the K-T or K-Pg mass extinction event. For the first time, geologists have drilled into the peak ring of that crater in the International Ocean Discove...

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Main Authors: Kring, D., Claeys, P., Gulick, S., Morgan, J., Collins, G., Bralower, T., Chenot, E., Christeson, G., Cockell, C., Coolen, Marco, Ferrière, L., Gebhardt, C., Goto, K., Jones, H., Lofi, J., Lowery, C., Mellett, C., Ocampo-Torres, R., Perez-Cruz, L., Pickersgill, A., Poelchau, M., Rae, A., Rasmussen, C., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Riller, U., Sato, H., Smit, J., Tikoo, S., Tomioka, N., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Whalen, M., Wittmann, A., Xiao, L., Yamaguchi, K., Zylberman, W.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Geological Society of America 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57856