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Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines
Arnold J. Bloom
Web Topic 2.5 Impact Crater in the Yucatan Peninsula
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The impact crater from the asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago (Ma). The expanded image exaggerates the topography of a circular trough denoted in red. This trough is only about 3 to 5 meters deep by about 5 kilometers wide and demarcates the crater's outer boundary.
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2003) PIA03379: Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03379, accessed November 20, 2009.)
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