Numerical Modeling of an Asteroid Impact on Earth: Matching Field Observations at the Chicxulub Crater Using the Distinct Element Method (DEM)

In recent years, an international consortium of research organizations conducted investigations at the Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, to better understand the crater’s formation mechanisms and the effects produced by the impact of the asteroid that is hypothesized to have caused one of the maj...

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Main Authors: Tam N.-M. Duong, Billy Hernawan, Zenon Medina-Cetina, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
Series:Geosciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/13/5/139