Glen Penfield
Glen Penfield is an American geophysicist best known for his work in identifying the Chicxulub crater as the impact site for the asteroid believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. His research in the 1980s provided crucial evidence that supported the asteroid impact hypothesis, linking geological anomalies to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
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Glen Penfield discovered a large underground structure in the Yucatán Peninsula that suggested a meteorite impact.
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