What if an asteroid hit the Marianas Trench?

Remember that the depest point in the oceans is in the Mariana Trench, and is only 11 km deep! The energy of the impact will vaporize the asteroid and a large amount of the Earth’s crust, creating a crater more than one hundred kilometers across, throwing all that rock into the air.

Is Chicxulub deeper than Mariana Trench?

The geologic processes that created the Mariana Trench have caused us to look for similar trenches in similar situations, and so far the Mariana is still the winner.

What created Mariana Trench?

subduction
The Mariana Trench was formed through a process called subduction. Earth’s crust is made up of comparably thin plates that “float” on the molten rock of the planet’s mantle. While floating on the mantle, the edges of these plates slowly bump into each other and sometimes even collide head-on.

What were the effects of the asteroid collision that killed dinosaurs?

But a shower of particles wasn’t the only effect of the collision — the impact caused fires, climate change and widespread extinctions. At the same time, dinosaurs, which until then had managed to survive for 180 million years, died out.

What happened to the dinosaurs?

What killed the dinosaurs? Their sudden disappearance 65 million years ago, along with at least 50 percent of all species then living on Earth, is known as the K-T event (Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction event).

Why is the dinosaur fossil record so hard to trace?

Because they’re so rare, tracing the dinosaur fossil record is hard. A better fossil record to trace is the marine microfossils. They are very diverse, evolve quickly, were superabundant, and so much easier to track. They show a clearer story of extinction at the K-T boundary.”

Where can I find dinosaur fossils in Mexico?

See more dinosaur pictures. On the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, near the town of Chicxulub, Mexico, is a crater about 120 miles (193 kilometers) in diameter.