More about Chicxulub Impact Crater

Planetary Science
Written By Greg Schicker-Taubman

USGS Public Domain image of the Gravity Anomaly and the coastline of the Yucatan Peninsula

Barringer Family Fund grant recipient, Catherine Ross is currently working on her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin studying the Chicxulub impact structure and the associated Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction boundary layers. She is interested in how punctuated events in Earth’s history are preserved in the rock record.

Greg Schicker-Taubman
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