Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project
Project Acronym: CSDP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5032
Impact structures in the solar system are mainly recognized and explored through remote sensing, and on Earth through geophysical deep sounding. To date, a continuous scientific sampling of large impact craters from cover rocks to target material has only seldom been performed. The first project to deep-drill and core into one of the largest and well-preserved terrestrial impact structures was executed in the winter of 2001/2002 in the 65 Myr old Chicxulub crater in Mexico using integrated coring sampling and in-situ measurements.
Offshore Drilling: CSDP-2
Keywords: Central America, Mexico, Merida, Yaxcopoil, Yucatan, Chicxulub, Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary, Impact Crater
Cores are stored at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Geociencias
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Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
- Dante Moran-Zenteno – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Virgil Sharpton – University of Alaska at Fairbanks
- Richard Buffler – University of Texas at Austin
- Dieter Stoeffler – Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin
- Jan Smit – Free University of Amsterdam
CoPIs
Co-PIs: No data found
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project (CSDP)
- Proposed in:
- 1999
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Cretaceous/Tertiary(Paleogene)
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 1(1)
- Drilled length:
- n.a.
- Cored length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered, length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- n.a.
- Expedition #
- 5032
- Location
- Central America, Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, Merida, Yaxcopoil, Mexico
- Coordinates
- 21.0000, -90.0000
- Status
- Completed
Project Location
Project Timeline
Drilling
9 December 2001 - 22 February 2002