Chicxulub impact created massive melt sheet and hydrothermal system

[Oxytropidoceras]

Dino-Killing Asteroid Spawned a Huge Magma 

Chamber That Lasted Millions of Years

by George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, May 29, 2020

https://gizmodo.com/dino-killing-asteroid-spawned-a-huge-magma-chamber-that-1843752492

 

The open access paper is;

 

D. A. Kring, M. Tikoo, Schmieder, Ulrich Riller, 

and many others. 2020. Probing the 

hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact

crater. Science Advances  29 May 2020:

Vol. 6, no. 22, eaaz3053 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz3053

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/22/eaaz3053

 

Yours,

 

Paul H