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The buried record of Chicxulub

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Impact craters often have asymmetric shapes, which have been used to infer the direction and angle of impact. But pre-existing structural or topographic heterogeneities also play an important role in crater asymmetry.

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Figure 1: Effect of pre-impact heterogeneities.

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Schultz, P. The buried record of Chicxulub. Nature Geosci 1, 90–91 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo120

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