Natural History of Mexico by State - Natural History of Baja California, Natural History of Baja California Sur, Natural History of Campeche (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Not illustrated. Chapters: Natural History of Baja California, Natural History of Baja California Sur, Natural History of Campeche, Natural History of Chiapas, Natural History of Chihuahua, Natural History of Coahuila, Natural History of Durango, Natural History of Michoacan, Natural History of Nayarit, Natural History of Nuevo Leon, Natural History of Oaxaca, Natural History of Quintana Roo, Natural History of Sonora, Natural History of Tabasco, Natural History of Tamaulipas, Natural History of Veracruz, Natural History of Zacatecas, Natural History of the Yucatan, Sian Ka'an, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Chicxulub Crater, Gran Desierto de Altar, Thick-Billed Parrot, Canon Del Sumidero National Park, Islas Marias, Xelha, Chihuahuan Desert, Lacandon Jungle, Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Tiburon Island, 2007 Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass Tornadoes, Madrean Region, Coastal Sage Scrub, Sierra Madre Occidental, Janitzio, Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich, Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir Pine-Oak Forests, Baja California Desert, Bay of Campeche, Madrean Sky Islands, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Sumidero Canyon, Fox's Mountain Meadow Snake, Ox Bel Ha Cave System, Cayos Arcas, El Pinacate Y Gran Desierto de Altar, Mexcaltitan, Chiapas Highlands, Rosa Seamount. Excerpt: The Chicxulub crater (pronounced ) is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. The crater is more than 180 km (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter. The crater was discovered by Glen Penfield, a geophysicist who had been working in the Yucatan while looking for oil during the late 1970s. Penfield was initially unable to obtain evide...