The Habitat of the Nascent Chicxulub Crater

Bralower, Timothy J.; Cosmidis, Julie; Fantle, M. S.; Lowery, Christopher M.; Passey, B. H.; Gulick, Sean P. S.; Morgan, V. J.; Vajda, V.; Whalen, Michael T.; Wittmann, Axel 1971-; Artemieva, Natalia A.; Farley, K.; Goderis, Steven; Hajek, E.; Heaney, P. J.; Kring, David A. (David Allen); Lyons, S. L.; Rasmussen, Cornelia; Sibert, E.; Rodríguez-Tovar, Francisco J.; Turner‐Walker, G.; Zachos, James C.; Carte, J.; Chen, S. A.; Cockell, Charles; Coolen, Marco J. L.; Freeman, K. H.; Garber, J.; Gonzalez, M.; Gray, J. L.; Grice, Kliti; Jones, Heather L.; Schaefer, Bettina; Smit, Jan; Tikoo, Sonia M.; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3440-6282

The Habitat of the Nascent Chicxulub Crater

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2020-11-24

Authors

Bralower, Timothy J.

Cosmidis, Julie

Fantle, M. S.

Lowery, Christopher M.

Passey, B. H.

Gulick, Sean P. S.

Morgan, V. J.

Vajda, V.

Whalen, Michael T.

Wittmann, Axel 1971-

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Wiley

Abstract

The newly formed Chicxulub crater was rapidly filled by seawater then disturbed by tsunami and seiche waves. Sedimentary layers deposited as wave energy declined provide a unique window into the environment of the nascent crater in the months and years to millennia after the impact.

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Chicxulub Crater, Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

Citation

Bralower, T. J., Cosmidis, J., Fantle, M. S., Lowery, C. M., Passey, B. H., Gulick, S. P. S., et al. (2020). The habitat of the nascent Chicxulub crater. AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000208. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000208

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1726

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