Geosciences Working Group

The Great Collision - NEW Findings from the Chicxulub Crater

Lecturer: Dr. Barbara Donner

Mass extinctions mark the history of the earth. During the most famous biological crisis 66 million years ago, the impact of a meteorite off the Yucatan peninsula played a decisive role.
Scientists have recently DIRECTLY drilled into the Chicxulub meteorite crater to find out why this impact caused so much death and destruction!

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