What exactly happens during and immediately after the impact of a meteorite? That was the question posed by a team of geologists from the research group Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry (AMGC) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The Chicxulub crater in Mexico is best known because of the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago. However, it is also a natural laboratory for studying the consequences of processes linked to a meteorite impact. Using a new chemical method, the team were able for the first time to carry out temperature measurements deep in a meteorite crater. ...
