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abstract

  • Drilling into Chicxulub's formationThe Chicxulub impact crater, known for its link to the demise of the dinosaurs, also provides an opportunity to study rocks from a large impact structure. Large impact craters have “peak rings” that define a complex crater morphology. Morganet al.looked at rocks from a drilling expedition through the peak rings of the Chicxulub impact crater (see the Perspective by Barton). The drill cores have features consistent with a model that postulates that a single over-heightened central peak collapsed into the multiple-peak-ring structure. The validity of this model has implications for far-ranging subjects, from how giant impacts alter the climate on Earth to the morphology of crater-dominated planetary surfaces.Science, this issue p.878; see also p.836

authors

  • Morgan, Joanna V
  • Gulick, Sean PS
  • Bralower, Timothy
  • Chenot, Elise
  • Christeson, Gail
  • Claeys, Philippe
  • Cockell, Charles
  • Collins, Gareth S
  • Coolen, Marco JL
  • Ferrière, Ludovic
  • Gebhardt, Catalina
  • Goto, Kazuhisa
  • Jones, Heather
  • Kring, David A
  • Le Ber, Erwan
  • Lofi, Johanna
  • Long, Xiao
  • Lowery, Christopher
  • Mellett, Claire
  • Ocampo-Torres, Rubén
  • Osinski, Gordon R
  • Perez-Cruz, Ligia
  • Pickersgill, Annemarie
  • Poelchau, Michael
  • Rae, Auriol
  • Rasmussen, Cornelia
  • Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario
  • Riller, Ulrich
  • Sato, Honami
  • Schmitt, Douglas R
  • Smit, Jan
  • Tikoo, Sonia
  • Tomioka, Naotaka
  • Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime
  • Whalen, Michael
  • Wittmann, Axel
  • Yamaguchi, Kosei E
  • Zylberman, William

publication date

  • November 18, 2016