Chicxulub crater
On one of the islands of Mexico... scientists discovered the existence of a large crater with a diameter of 180 km under the water, currently called (Chicxulub Crater).
Chicxulub crater is a Late Mesozoic impact crater (about 66 million years ago) buried under the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, to which it is attributed. Its diameter is greater than 180 km (110 mi). The age of the Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary) precisely coincides, leading to the conclusion that the cause of the crater is the same one that led to the extinction of dinosaurs and other creatures on Earth. The hole was discovered by Antonio Camargo and Glen Penfield, who were working in Yucatán exploring for oil during the 1970s.
In March 2010, after extensive analysis of the available evidence, experts concluded that the comet was the cause of the mass extinction of half of ancient life forms.
The strange thing is, after analysis, it turns out that this crater is 66 million years old... and this is the same date as the extinction... half of the life forms in the Cretaceous period, including the dinosaurs.
After conducting many studies... it was confirmed that this crater is the effect of a meteorite that struck the Earth and caused the largest tsunami in the history of the Earth... Then the sun was obscured by ash and flying dust for several years, which led to the extinction... half of the living organisms that existed at that time... .
In 1978, geophysicists Antonio Camargo and Benfield Glen were working for the state-owned Mexican oil company Pemex, as part of the Gulf of Mexico's aeromagnetic survey north of the Yucatán Peninsula. Penfield's mission was to use geophysical data to explore potential sites for oil exploration. In the data, Penfield found a huge underwater arc with “extraordinary symmetry” in diameter of 70 km (40 miles). But he was forbidden from publishing his conclusion due to Pemex policy at the time. Penfield found another arc on the same peninsula north of the first one. Comparing the two maps, he found separate arcs that formed a wide circle 180 kilometers (111 mi) away, centered near the village of Yucatán.
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