I know that the Mariana Trench is the deepest point on earth, at around 10km below sea level. But I was reading about the Chicxulub crater (crater left by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), and the wikipedia article says it is "about 20 kilometers (12 miles) in depth". Does that mean that Mariana Trench is actually not the deepest point on earth? I'm confused.
Hi Reddit,
We are scientists Sean Gulick, Joanna Morgan, and Chris Lowery. In April and May we drilled one hole into the Chicxulub impact crater just off the Yucutan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. The 66 million-year-old crater is directly linked to the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs (and most other life forms on Earth). The drilling expedition is part of International Ocean Discovery Program expedition #364 co-led by Sean Gulick from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and Joanna Morgan from the Imperial College London. Chris Lowery is a postdoctoral fellow at (UTIG). Since mid September weโre at the IODP-core repodistory in Bremen (Germany) where we have a closer look at more than 800 meters of core, split the core and take samples. Our hope is to better understand the physical makeup of the crater and how life on Earth recovered after the cataclysmic event.
We will be back at 1pm ET (7 pm CET) to answer your questions, Ask us anything!
https://esoexpedition364chicxulubimpactcrater.wordpress.com/
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Hi Reddit,
We are scientists Sean Gulick, Joanna Morgan, and Chris Lowery. Weโre off the coast of the Yucutan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico to retrieve rock cores from the Chicxulub impact crater โ a 66 million-year-old crater directly linked to the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs (and most other life forms on Earth).
The drilling expedition is part of International Ocean Discovery Program expedition #364 co-led by Sean Gulick from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and Joanna Morgan from the Imperial College London. Chris Lowery is a postdoctoral fellow at UTIG who helped early on in the expedition and is now back in Austin.
Weโve been on the drilling platform since April 14 and will spend approximately two months at sea retrieving rock cores before returning to our respective institutions to study the samples. Our hope is to better understand the physical makeup of the crater and how life on Earth recovered after the cataclysmic event.
Thank you for all your great questions, sorry we didn't get time to answer them all. We are off to the rig floor to see the next core. cheers Jo, Sean and Chris
