Expedition 364 to the Chicxulub Impact Crater 

The Chicxulub Crater is famous for its link to the K-T or K-Pg mass extinction of dinosaurs and approximately 75% of the species on Earth. 

The crater is buried, however, by nearly a kilometer of sediment and the northern half is covered by the Gulf of Mexico. 

While Chicxulub is the best preserved large impact crater on Earth, those geological circumstances require scientific drilling. 

Recently, IODP and ICDP collaborated to produce a new 1,335 m-deep borehole. 

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