Posted: Oct 12, 2016 1:27 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37625348
B.B.C. Article
Chicxulub 'dinosaur crater' investigation begins in earnest
Scientists have obtained remarkable new insights into the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
They have been examining rocks from the crater that the 15km-wide space object dug out of what is now the Gulf of Mexico some 66 million years ago.
The team says it can see evidence in these materials for how life returned to the scene soon after the calamity.
Descendants of these small organisms are likely thriving today in amongst the crater's smashed up materials.
The international project has shipped the hundreds of metres it drilled from beneath the Gulf floor earlier this year to the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, at the University of Bremen, Germany.
It is here that the cores are being catalogued, analysed and archived.
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