File:Yucatan chix crater.jpg

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English: This shaded relief image of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula shows a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth.
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Modified NASA image, with scale and labels to increase clarity by David Fuchs.

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  • 2007-10-10 21:19 David Fuchs 715×799×8 (321474 bytes) Minuscule fix to make northern Cyprus be coloured when Cyprus is coloured and Northern Cyprus isn\'t explicitly so.Minuscule fix to make northern Cyprus be coloured when Cyprus is coloured and Northern Cyprus isn\'t explicitly so.minor fixminor fixminor

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Map of the Chicxulub crater

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Chicxulub crater

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