1990
Chicxulub Crater
Idetifies the 180 mile wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico, and propose it as being the most likely candidate for the catastrophic environmental changes that killed off 70% of all species around 65 million years ago
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Chicxulub Crater in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Idetifies the 180 mile wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico, and propose it as being the most likely candidate for the catastrophic environmental changes that killed off 70% of all species around 65 million years ago
Provenance
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