2006-08-20 17:40:00 · 10 answers · asked by david_tengler 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
No, but there is a big meteor crater in the middle of it.
Meaning-- there is a big depression caused by a meteor down by the Yucatan Peninsula, but they think the Gulf was make by plate tectonics.
2006-08-20 17:45:43 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meteor that landed 65 million years ago near Mexico's Yucatan Penninsula created a crator 100 miles in diameter. The Gulf of Mexico was already there before the meteor hit.
2006-08-20 18:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Gulf of Mexico was formed durings Pangea's seperation as the plates of the earth's crust moved via plate tectonics.
2006-08-21 10:57:03 · answer #3 · answered by Protagonist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some think so and speculate that this was the demise of the dinosaurs.
A guy named Velokovsky thought in "When Worlds Collide" that the pacific ocean was cause by a chunk of Mars htting earth
2006-08-20 17:45:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Al Gore did.
2006-08-20 17:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by BobBobBob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorta looks like it did dont it?
2006-08-20 17:46:08 · answer #6 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound arguments here.
2016-08-23 04:52:08 · answer #7 · answered by gertie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you perhaps give more details?
2016-08-08 13:05:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES, MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
2006-08-20 17:52:06 · answer #9 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know
2014-01-26 08:54:22 · answer #10 · answered by slowdown 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋