also filled the present-day Gulf of Mexico with nutrients for at least 700,000 years, the researchers concluded. In the core drilled from the impact site, called "Chicxulub crater" (which you ...

wide slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, leaving behind a massive 90-mile-wide (150 kilometers) crater. The impact killed all non-avian dinosaurs and decimated marine creatures—but may ...

The study shows that fine particles kicked up from the impact may have blocked ... In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared ...

The one seen in the Gulf of Mexico was a reasonably big one ... it lacked a little something; an impact crater. It would take another 10 years before samples from the Chicxulub crater were ...

The researchers found evidence that osmium from the asteroid buried kilometers beneath the impact crater was continuously released in the Gulf of Mexico due to submarine hydrothermal activity.

"Nadir's shape is diagnostic of an asteroid impact. It's got a raised rim ... The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been about 12km across.

The impact left a crater 110 miles wide and 12 miles deep ... concentrated near the impact zone around the prehistoric Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican peninsula, but massive waves would have ...

More than a week after the U.S. Coast Guard said that an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico near a ... but its impact, that is of most concern.

A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Sato et al. A gravity ...

The researchers found evidence that osmium from the asteroid buried kilometers beneath the impact crater was continuously released in the Gulf of Mexico due to submarine hydrothermal activity.