Petrography and Geochemistry of the Chicxulub impact melt

Abstract

The Chicxulub impact crater, off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Fig. 1), is the third largest impact crater on Earth identified as such and the largest impact structure dating from the Phanerozoic (Grieve et al., 2008). It is the only impact structure on Earth to preserve a peak ring (Gulick et al., 2013), and the only one to be directly implicated in one of the major mass extinctions of Earth’s history (Morgan et al., 1997).

Date of Award	30 Aug 2019
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Ghent University
Supervisor	Philippe Claeys (Promotor)