Giant Crater's Story

The model of the giant crater was built 60 million years ago.

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Text: Mert Gökalp

Drawing: DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAY

Scientists who made drilling studies on the Mexican Yukataan Peninsula recreated the dynamic model of Chicxulub Crateri. The gigantic crater, a fifteen kilometer-wide asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs, erupted sixty-six million years ago. In the model given in the Science magazine, it was seen that the hard shell of the planet was shaken back and forth like liquid at the time of the collision.

So much so that a higher peak than Mount Everest sprang a mile away from the sky with the effect of the explosion, creating low peaks in the earth's crust. The rash that burst into the air with the violence of the crasher caused the sky to drown all over the planet, the cooling of the climate for years, and the destruction of many living creatures living on the earth, not just the dinosaurs.

Researchers trying to find rocks that hit the highest point in the collision would have brought these dense granites to the surface almost ten kilometers deep. The oddity in the pink granites was immediately noticed. The rocks deformed by exposure to massive strasse and mountain pressures, cracking each particle.

Meteor left a trail in the earth's crust about a hundred kilometers in diameter and thirty kilometers deep at the time of the collision. When the center of the impactor jumped back, an inner ring formed inside the outer crater ring. Today, most of this inner ring is covered with limestone deposits in the black sea, buried at six hundred meters of ocean sediment in open sea. The crater's outlines can be clearly seen in the famous collapsed boulders known as Senotes.