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ArticleCommunications earth & environment2026

A long-lived impact-generated hydrothermal system at the Chicxulub impact structure.

Annemarie E Pickersgill, Evangelos Christou, Marissa M Tremblay, Dan N Barfod, Cornelia Rasmussen, Martin R Lee, Martin Schmieder, Gareth S Collins, Ross Dymock, Sean P S Gulick and 8 more

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Article in Communications earth & environment, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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18 authors.

Annemarie E PickersgillSUERC: Centre for the Isotope Sciences, East Kilbride, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5452-2849
Evangelos ChristouSchool of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Molema Building, Glasgow, UK.
Marissa M TremblayDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9984-9554
Dan N BarfodSUERC: Centre for the Isotope Sciences, East Kilbride, UK.
Cornelia RasmussenInstitute for Geophysics & Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas USA.
Martin R LeeSchool of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Molema Building, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6004-3622
Martin SchmiederCenter for Lunar Science and Exploration, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX USA.
Gareth S CollinsDepartment of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6087-6149
Ross DymockSUERC: Centre for the Isotope Sciences, East Kilbride, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9617-048X
Sean P S GulickInstitute for Geophysics & Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4740-9068
David A KringCenter for Lunar Science and Exploration, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3440-6282
Joanna V MorganDepartment of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2933-9473
Gordon R OsinskiDepartment of Earth Sciences, Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, University of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1832-5925
Timothy SwindleLunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA.
Sonia M TikooDepartment of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9524-8284
Axel WittmannEyring Materials Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA.
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Darren F MarkSUERC: Centre for the Isotope Sciences, East Kilbride, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrothermal systems likely played an essential role in the origin of life, both on Earth and potentially on other planets. They form anywhere that heat and aqueous fluids interact, including within cooling hypervelocity impact craters. Longer periods of hydrothermal activity will generate extended windows of opportunity for prebiotic chemical reactions to occur, life to develop, and micro-organisms to thrive and propagate beyond their point of origin. Here, we present radioisotopic age constraints and numerical simulations for the duration of post-impact hydrothermal activity in and around the peak ring of the ~200 km diameter 66 Ma Chicxulub impact structure. We find that hydrothermal activity persisted for at least 8 million years (Myr), which is approximately four times longer than previously estimated by numerical simulations, palaeomagnetic records, and petrographic interpretations at Chicxulub, making it the longest-lived impact generated hydrothermal system documented on Earth.

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