If the dinosaurs were killed by a meteor, has there been any massive crater to back it up?

Question

Asteroid, srry :]

Answer 1

There are 5 major extinction events that scientists generally agree upon. The one we are talking about here took place 65.5 million years ago. Geologist find that there are large concentrations of iridium found in the soil from that area, hundreds of times greater than normal. Because iridium is so dense, most of it sank into the earths core while the planet was still molten. It has been suggested that the iridium came from a meteorite. There are also several other examples of geological occurances from that time that point to a meteorite impact. Check them out at the website below. The meteorite is predicted to have been about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter, about the size of Manhattan. Such a large meteorite would impact the earth with the force of 100 trillion tons of TNT. The chicxulub crater buried under chicxulub on the coast of Yucatan is the correct size for an impact of such force (180 km in diameter), and is believed to be the impact location. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

this is purely a theory. there are various craters that are nonetheless unexplained. yet now scientists can take slightly pattern of rock this is from the meteor and be attentive to how some time past it befell. There may well be a crater on the backside of the sea for all all of us be attentive to, if there become, that section would have been land tens of millions of years in the past.

Answer 3

Yes, there is a very old crater under the Yucatan Peninsula. To make it eve more tantalizing, many minerals found in the Earth's crust are missing from it, indicating that whatever hit there was large enough to blast large quantities of matter away.

Answer 4

the gulf of Mexico is a meteor crater ,and a meteor that size would have covered the planet in dust for years enough to start an ice age,and kill every body on Earth with the resulting tremors and tidal waves

Answer 5

There's one in Mexico that most scientists think is the best candidate, but it's not proven.

65 million years of change have left it well buried but it can be "seen" in measurements of the Earth and it has been drilled into. Everyone now agrees it is the remnant of a big impact crater.

But some still disagree about what exactly killed the dinosaurs. More here:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/deepimpact-04o.html

Answer 6

here's an arguement that the previously known craters were not the dino killers. Oh and the one they think is NOT underwater. It is the Chicxulub crater in the yucatan peninsula.

Answer 7

Well, scientists are pretty sure the one on the Yucatan peninsula, and/or the one in Siberia had a lot to do with it.

Answer 8

Some areas have recently been identified but I personally feel that most of them were killed by myth.

Answer 9

It's under the sea.
It could be the missing part of earth's crust that exposes the mantle they discovered recently.

Answer 10

ya there is one i have seen it in pictures and even on discovery channel but forgot actrully where it is.


i have just tried on google



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