Rock core from dinosaur-killing impact reveals how enormous craters form

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Drilling into Mexico’s Chicxulub basin also finds shattered rock where underground life could thrive.

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Witze, A. Rock core from dinosaur-killing impact reveals how enormous craters form. Nature 539, 478 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20994

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