‘Chicxulub Crater’: The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Reveals Instant Himalayas And More Facts
One of the largest impact craters in the solar system "Chicxulub Crater" in Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico has been recently drilled and checked by a group of scientists. The deep drilling in the Chicxulub crater, which is located near Chicxulub city in Mexico, has brought sedimentary granite rocks in fluid form. Scientists have noticed that the fluid form is extraordinary considering it is spotted in the crust of the earth. The observation at Chicxulub Crater is expected to bring more facts about the life in earth.
Chicxulub Crater is reportedly created by the falling of asteroids in earth surface about 66 million years ago. The crater is in a circular shape and reportedly have 180 Kilometers of diameter and 20 Kilometers of depth. It is considered as the largest on earth as well as one of the largest in the solar system by size. The impact is estimated to be huge and asteroids hit with an energy equal to 100 million atomic bombs and wiped out dinosaurs and life from the earth.
A team of 30 geophysicists and researchers from 12 countries found that the Chicxulub Crater the deep granite bedrock at the ground zero is in the liquid form just after the impact. The impact piled the deep rock and created an uplift at the center of the crater created an instant-Himalayas of up to 10 Kilometers height by fluid granite and later it settled down in the ridge. Scientists see that granite at that level of crust is not expected.
The scientists hope that while they examine Chicxulub Crater sediments, they can estimate how the life came back to earth and whether the crater itself helped the formation of life. Scientists have collected minerals and granite parts that were settled in the cracks in hot-molten form during the impact. The minerals were found to be too hot initially but the scientists are hoping to get signs of ancient and modern DNAs.
Until it was buried, the #Chicxulub crater probably looked a lot like the Schrödinger crater on the Moon pic.twitter.com/ja69tDHb7M — Gareth Collins (@DrGarethCollins) November 18, 2016
The team finds few more facts that Chicxulub Crater's buried ring would have helped the return of life due to its nutrients and hot fractures that are fluid filled. As of May 2016, the team drilled up to 700 meters deep into the sea level. They are planning further drilling at Chicxulub Crater up to 1500 meters so that more details and facts about the crater formation can be obtained. It would help to explain how life rebound to earth based on observations.
