MCZ Lunchtime Seminar
Date and Time
February 9, 2026
12:00PM - 01:00PM EST
Location
Robert A. Gilbert Room, MCZ 101A
The Chicxulub Impact and Terminal Cretaceous Mass Extinction Event
David A. Kring
Principal Scientist
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Dr. Kring will briefly review the discovery of the Chicxulub impact crater and how he linked that impact event to the mass extinction that upended the evolutionary path of life at the end of the Cretaceous. Then, using the geologic details of that impact’s location, illustrate the environmental calamity that followed on local, regional, and global scales.