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It is a huge impact crater of 180 kilometers (112 miles) in diameter, located in the northern Yucatan peninsula. After 65 million years of erosive forces, it can be hardly seen, barely being detected by measuring gravity anomalies and topographic differences nowadays.
On the other hand, the impact that created the Chicxulub crater had a destructive force equivalent to 100 teratons of TNT (7 billion times the force of the Hiroshima nuclear blast); a megatsunami of waves 5 kilometers (3 miles) of altitude and a cloud of ash and debris that covered the world for several years.
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When the chicxulub crater formed?
End of the Mesozoic era
How many years ago was the Chicxulub crater formed?
About 65 million years ago.
What size is the chicxulub crater?
The crater is more than 180 kilometers (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter
How was bailly crater formed?
Impact.
When was Meteor Crater created?
It has been estimated that Meteor Crater was formed about 50,000 years ago.
When the chicxulub crater formed?
End of the Mesozoic era
What era was the chicxulub crater formed?
End of the Mesozoic era
How many years ago was the Chicxulub crater formed?
About 65 million years ago.
What geological features are formed by craters as a result of impact?
Meteor craters.
The features on the Moon formed by objects crashing into its surface are?
When an asteroid, comet, or meteorite collides with the Moon a crater is formed.
Where may a crater be formed on a volcano?
a crater can be formed anywhere in a volcano. its usually formed at the top though.
Was the Barringer crater made before or after Noah's Flood?
A:The Barringer crater was formed by a meteor impact around 50,000 years ago - relatively recently in geological terms but before times attributed in the Bible to the creation of the world and Noah's Flood.
Is it true that the yucatan peninsula which was formed of limestone about 50 million years ago?
No. Actually, it is older than that: the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula is the most probable site where the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs crashed some 65 million years ago.
How do stalactites relate to Earth Science?
By being geological features, formed naturally from the mineral calcite by rain-water and atmospheric carbon-dioxide!
What size is the chicxulub crater?
The crater is more than 180 kilometers (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter
How was the crater Plato formed?
it was formed by a astroed that hit the moon
What formed a crater on antarctica?
A meteor
