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Oceanography | Vol32 No1120

OCEAN DRILLING PERSPECTIVES ON

MeteoriteImpactsBy Christopher M Lowery Joanna V Morgan

Sean PS Gulick Timothy J Bralower

Gail L Christeson and the Expedition 364 Scientists

Derrick of the platform Liftboat Myrtle at night Photo credit E Le Ber ECORDIODP

SPECIAL ISSUE ON SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING LOOKING TO THE FUTURE


Oceanography | March 2019 121

INTRODUCTIONLarge meteorite impacts have signifi-cantly influenced Earth history pos-sibly driving the early evolution of life (eg Kring 2000 2003 Nisbet and Sleep 2001) and the initial composi-tions of the ocean and the atmosphere (eg Kasting 1993) They also have the potential to completely reshape the bio-sphere (eg Alvarez et al 1980 Smit and Hertogen 1980) The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction almost certainly caused by the impact of a mete-orite on the Yucataacuten carbonate platform of Mexico 66 million years ago known as the Chicxulub impact is the most recent major mass extinction of the so-called Big Five (eg Raup and Sepkoski 1982) It ended the dominance of non-avian dinosaurs marine reptiles and ammo-nites and set the stage for the Cenozoic dominance of mammals that eventually led to the evolution of humans (Schulte et al 2010 Meredith et al 2011) The environmental effects of the Chicxulub

impact and the resulting mass extinction occurred over a geologically brief time period with the major climatic changes lasting years to decades (eg Brugger et al 2017) The subsequent recovery of life provides an important analog for the potential recovery of biodiversity fol-lowing geologically rapid anthropogenic extinction due to climate change acidifi-cation and eutrophication

The K-Pg impact hypothesis was con-troversial when first proposed (Alvarez et al 1980 Smit and Hertogen 1980) but careful correlation of impact mate-rial from K-Pg boundary sections across the world led to its gradual acceptance (eg Schulte et al 2010) The discov-ery of the Chicxulub crater (Penfield and Carmargo 1981 Hildebrand et al 1991) and its clear genetic relation-ship with K-Pg boundary ejecta pro-vided compelling evidence for this hypothesis Scientific ocean drilling has been instrumental in discovering wide-spread physical chemical and biological

supporting evidence and in document-ing the global environmental and biotic effects of the impact (eg see sum-mary in Schulte et al 2010) Drilling by International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364 into the Chicxulub cra-ter has yielded valuable insights into the mechanisms of large impact crater for-mation and the recovery of life (Morgan et al 2016 2017 Artemieva et al 2017 Christeson et al 2018 Lowery et al 2018 Riller et al 2018)

Although the K-Pg is the only mass extinction that is widely (though not uni-versally) accepted to have been caused by an extraterrestrial collision impacts have been suggested at one point or another as drivers for every major Phanerozoic extinction event (eg Rampino and Stothers 1984) and many other major climate events (eg Kennett et al 2009 Schaller et al 2016) The discovery of an iridium layer at the K-Pg boundary as the key signature of extraterrestrial material (Alvarez et al 1980) spurred the search for other impact horizons through careful examination of many other geologically significant intervals So far no other geo-logic event or transition has met all the criteria to indicate causation by an impact (eg the presence of iridium and other platinum group elements in chondritic proportions tektites shock-metamorphic effects in rocks and minerals perturba-tion of marine osmium isotopes and ideally an impact crater) although many periods would meet at least one of these (eg Sato et al 2013 Schaller et al 2016 Schaller and Fung 2018) The search for impact evidence continues

For the last 50 years analyses of geological and geophysical data col-lected by the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) have provided a unique perspec-tive on Earth history Rock samples col-lected by IODP and its sister organi-zation the International Continental scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) have provided insights into impact cratering

ABSTRACT Extraterrestrial impacts that reshape the surfaces of rocky bodies are ubiquitous in the solar system On early Earth impact structures may have nurtured the evolution of life More recently a large meteorite impact off the Yucataacuten Peninsula in Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous caused the disappearance of 75 of species known from the fossil record including non-avian dinosaurs and cleared the way for the dominance of mammals and the eventual evolution of humans Understanding the fundamental processes associated with impact events is critical to understanding the history of life on Earth and the potential for life in our solar system and beyond

Scientific ocean drilling has generated a large amount of unique data on impact pro-cesses In particular the Yucataacuten Chicxulub impact is the single largest and most sig-nificant impact event that can be studied by sampling in modern ocean basins and marine sediment cores have been instrumental in quantifying its environmental cli-matological and biological effects Drilling in the Chicxulub crater has significantly advanced our understanding of fundamental impact processes notably the formation of peak rings in large impact craters but these data have also raised new questions to be addressed with future drilling Within the Chicxulub crater the nature and thickness of the melt sheet in the central basin is unknown and an expanded Paleocene hemipelagic section would provide insights to both the recovery of life and the climatic changes that followed the impact Globally new cores collected from todayrsquos central Pacific could directly sample the downrange ejecta of this northeast-southwest trending impact

Extraterrestrial impacts have been controversially suggested as primary drivers for many important paleoclimatic and environmental events throughout Earth history However marine sediment archives collected via scientific ocean drilling and geo-chemical proxies (eg osmium isotopes) provide a long-term archive of major impact events in recent Earth history and show that other than the end-Cretaceous impacts do not appear to drive significant environmental changes


processes and the effects of events of different magnitudes on the climate and the biosphere supplying an excep-tional record of processes that are ubiq-uitous across the solar system (and pre-sumably beyond) This article focuses on ocean drilling perspectives on meteorite impacts We examine the contributions of scientific ocean drilling to our under-standing of impact events from detailed records of extinction and chemical and physical perturbation in the marine

realm to the mechanisms by which rocks are deformed to create peak rings (a dis-continuous ring of hills) in impact cra-ters The exciting results of drilling in the Chicxulub crater in 2016 raise new questions and suggest promising new challenges and avenues of investigation of deep-sea records of impact events that can only be undertaken by a pro-gram such as IODP (Note that import-ant contributions from onshore drilling by the ICDP into the Chicxulub Lake

Bosumtwi Chesapeake Bay and Lake Elrsquogygytgyn impact craters are summa-rized by respectively Urrutia-Fucugauchi et al 2004 Koeberl et al 2007 Gohn et al 2008 and Melles et al 2012)

MARINE RECORD OF IMPACTSScientific ocean drilling provides the raw materials that enable scientists to gener-ate high-resolution composite records of geochemical changes in the ocean through time One of the geochemi-cal proxies used is the isotopic ratio of osmium (187Os188Os) in seawater as reflected in marine sediments Osmium (Os) isotopes in ocean water are the result of secular changes in the amount of man-tle-derived (depleted in 187Os) and crustal materials (enriched in 187Os) (Pegram et al 1992) Changes in 187Os188Os of marine sediments over time can be used as proxies for flood basalt volcanism (eg Turgeon and Creaser 2008) weath-ering flux (Ravizza et al 2001) ocean basin isolation (eg Poirier and Hillaire-Marcel 2009) and importantly for our purposes the detection of impact events (Turekian 1982 Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Ravizza 2000 2012 Paquay et al 2008)

Chondritic meteors have an Os isoto-pic ratio similar to that of Earthrsquos man-tle and extraterrestrial impacts result in a strong rapid excursion to unradiogenic (ie closer to 0) marine 187Os188Os ratios (Luck and Turekian 1983 Koeberl 1998 Reimold et al 2014 Figure 1) The only two such excursions in the Cenozoic are Chicxulub (Figure 1b) and the late Eocene (~35 million years ago Poag et al 1994 Bottomley et al 1997) dual impacts at Chesapeake Bay on the North American Atlantic coastal plain and Popigai in Siberia (Figure 1c Robinson et al 2009 Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Ravizza 2012) Such Os isotope excursions would only be expected from chondritic impactors but it is important to note that the scale of the impact is not necessarily reflected in the size of the Os excursion (Morgan 2008) Other major climate events that have been proposed to be associated with impacts such as the Paleocene-Eocene

FIGURE 1 Marine osmium isotopes (a) through the Cenozoic (after Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Ravizza 2012) These data the majority of which come from DSDPODPIODP cores record the long-term trend toward more radiogenic (ie continental-weathering derived) 187Os188Os ratios in the ocean throughout the Cenozoic Superimposed on this long-term trend are several major rapid shifts toward unradiogenic ratios driven by impact of extraterrestrial objects This effect is evident in intervals associated with impact events including (b) the Chicxulub impact and (c) the Chesapeake Bay impact Other intervals of major environmental change lack the diagnostic negative excur-sion including (d) the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (e) the Miocene Climate Transition and (f) the Younger Dryas Red lines are well-dated large (gt35 km crater diameter) impacts (after Grieve 2001) Note that these data are plotted against the 2012 Geologic Time Scale (Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Ravizza 2012) more recent dating puts the K-Pg boundary at 660 million years ago (Renne et al 2013)

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Ocean drilling has directly sampled ejecta from several Cenozoic craters in the form of black glassy spherical tek-tites created from melt droplets caused by a meteor impact Tektites from the late Eocene Chesapeake Bay and Popigai impacts were recovered from DSDP and ODP Sites 94 (Gulf of Mexico) 149 (Caribbean) and 612 903 904 and 1073 (New Jersey margin) in the Atlantic (Glass 2002) from DSDP Sites 65 69 70 161 162 166 167 and 292 in the equa-torial Pacific (Glass et al 1985) and from DSDP Site 216 in the Northeast Indian Ocean (Glass 1985) They have also been found in the South Atlantic at Maud Rise (ODP Site 689 Vonhof et al 2000) These microtektites include a large number of clinopyroxene- bearing spherules (termed ldquomicrokrystitesrdquo by Glass and Burns 1988) found in the Pacific and South Atlantic An irid-ium anomaly was reported to occur in association with these ejecta (Alvarez et al 1982) but higher-resolution work revealed that this iridium anom-aly occurs below the microtektite layer (Sanfilippo et al 1985) This position-ing indicates that there were actually two impacts at this time (Chesapeake and Popigai) one that produced an iridium anomaly and microkrystites and a second that did not produce an iridium anom-aly and that created chemically distinct microtektites (Glass et al 1985 Vonhof and Smit 1999) The iridium anomaly is also found at the Eocene-Oligocene Stratotype Section at Massignano Italy where it occurs ~12 m below or ~1 mil-lion years before the base of the Oligocene (Montanari et al 1993) Nevertheless

some researchers have inferred a causal relationship between these impacts and latest Eocene cooling and faunal change (eg Keller 1986 Vonhof et al 2000 Liu et al 2009) which would imply a climate feedback that amplified the short-term cooling directly caused by the impact (Vonhof et al 2000)

THE CHICXULUB IMPACT AND ITS PHYSICAL EFFECTSThe most important impact of the Phanerozoic and the one that has been best studied by scientific ocean drilling is the Chicxulub impact The hypothe-sis that an impact caused the most recent major mass extinction was founded on elevated iridium levels in the K-Pg bound-ary clays within outcrops in Spain Italy and Denmark (Alvarez et al 1980 Smit and Hertogen 1980) The impact hypoth-esis was initially quite controversial and one of the early objections was that irid-ium had only been measured at a few sites across a relatively small area of west-ern Europe and may have reflected a con-densed interval and not a discrete impact (Officer and Drake 1985) Researchers then began to investigate and document other K-Pg boundary sites around the globe many of which were DSDPODP drill sites (Figure 2) High iridium abun-dances were soon found at other sites (eg Orth et al 1981 Alvarez et al 1982) and the identification of shocked minerals within the K-Pg layer added

irrefutable proof that it was formed by an extraterrestrial impact (Bohor et al 1984) When a high-pressure shock wave passes through rocks common miner-als such as quartz and feldspar are per-manently deformed (referred to as shock metamorphism) and produce diagnos-tic features (eg Reimold et al 2014)

that on Earth are only found in asso-ciation with impacts and nuclear test sites Since 1985 many ODP and IODP drill sites have recovered (and often spe-cifically targeted) the K-Pg boundary (Figure 2) further contributing to our understanding of this event and demon-strating that ejecta materials were depos-ited globally (Figure 3)

The Chicxulub impact structure on the Yucataacuten Peninsula Mexico was first identified as a potential impact crater by Penfield and Carmargo-Zanoguera (1981) and then as the site of the K-Pg impact by Hildebrand et al (1991) These authors noted that the size of the shocked quartz and thickness of the K-Pg bound-ary deposit increased globally toward the Gulf of Mexico and they located the Chicxulub crater by its association with strong circular potential field gravity anomalies Core samples from onshore boreholes drilled by Petroacuteleos Mexicanos (ldquoPemexrdquo) confirmed the craterrsquos impact origin Although some authors have argued against a link between Chicxulub and the K-Pg boundary (see Keller et al

ldquoRock samples collected by IODP and its sister organization the International Continental scientific

Drilling Program (ICDP) have provided insights into impact cratering processes and the effects of events of different magnitudes on the climate and

the biosphere supplying an exceptional record of processes that are ubiquitous across the solar

system (and presumably beyond)

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2004 2007 for mature forms of that posi-tion) accurate 40Ar39Ar dating of impact glass within the K-Pg layer (Renne et al 2013 2018) as well as dating of micro-crystalline melt rock (Swisher et al 1992) and shocked zircon (Krogh et al 1993 Kamo et al 2011) from Chicxulub and the K-Pg layer clearly demonstrate that Chicxulub is the site of the K-Pg impact Hildebrand et al (1991) also noted that Gulf of Mexico DSDP Sites 94 95 536

and 540 contained deepwater grav-ity flows and turbidity-current deposits adjacent to Campeche Bank and DSDP Sites 603B 151 and 153 as well as out-crops along the Brazos River in Texas contained potential tsunami wave depos-its (Bourgeois et al 1988) all of which suggested these deposits were a result of the Chicxulub impact Increasingly opponents of the impact hypothesis have accepted an end-Cretaceous age for the

Chicxulub crater and have focused their arguments on the Deccan Traps in India as the sole or contributing cause of the mass extinction (see Chenet et al 2009 Punekar et al 2014 Mateo et al 2017 and Keller et al 2018 and references therein for a recent summary Schulte et al 2010 remains the best rebuttal of these arguments)

Many studies have subsequently con-firmed that at sites proximal to Chicxulub

FIGURE 2 (a) Map of DSDPODPIODP Sites that recovered the K-Pg boundary up to Expedition 369 The base map is adapted from the PALEOMAP Project (Scotese 2008) (b) Number of K-Pg papers by site according to Google Scholar as of November 30 2018 (search term Cretaceous AND Tertiary OR Paleogene OR Paleocene AND lsquoSite rsquo) As with any such search there are some caveats for example inclusion of papers that match the search terms but are not strictly about the K-Pg and papers that are missing because they are not cataloged by Google Scholar However this is a good approx-imation of the reams of articles that have been written about the K-Pg based on DSDP ODP and IODP cores and the clear impact (sorry) of scientific ocean drilling on the K-Pg literature n = 8679 but there are duplicates because some papers cover multiple sites The most recent site is U1514 (n = 3)

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(lt2000 km) the impact produced mul-tiple resurge tsunami gravity flow and shelf collapse deposits (eg Bohor and Betterton 1993 Bralower et al 1998 Grajales-Nishimura et al 2000 Schulte et al 2010 Hart et al 2012 Vellekoop et al 2014) Well logs DSDP cores and seismic data show margin collapse depos-its reach hundreds of meters thick locally making the K-Pg deposit in the circum- Gulf of Mexico the largest known sin-gle event deposit (Denne et al 2013 Sanford et al 2016) Complex stratigra-phy (Figure 3) and a mixture of nanno-fossil and foraminiferal assemblages of different ages that contain impact- derived materials characterize proxi-mal deepwater DSDP and ODP sites in the Gulf of Mexico (DSDP Sites 95 535ndash538 and 540) and the Caribbean (ODP Sites 999 and 1001) all exhibiting sequen-tial deposition of material from seismically driven tsunamis slope collapses gravity flows and airfalls (Sigurdsson et al 1997 Bralower et al 1998 Denne et al 2013 Sanford et al 2016) Bralower et al (1998) termed this distinct assemblage of materi-als the K-Pg boundary ldquococktailrdquo

At intermediate distances from Chicxulub (2000ndash6000 km) the K-Pg boundary layer is only 15ndash3 cm thick as observed in North America (Smit et al 1992 Schulte et al 2010) on Demerara Rise in the western Atlantic at ODP Site 1207 (KG MacLeod et al 2007 Schulte et al 2009) and on Gorgonilla Island Colombia (Bermuacutedez et al 2016) At the first two locations it has a dual-layer stratigraphy The lower layer con-tains goyazite and kaolinite spherules which have splash-form morphologies such as tear drops and dumbbells and is overlain by the ldquoboundary clayrdquo that con-tains the iridium anomaly and nickel-rich spinels (Smit and Romein 1985 Bohor et al 1989 1993 Bohor and Glass 1995) The similarity between spherules found in Haiti (~800 km from Chicxulub) and those found in the lower layer in North America has led to their joint interpre-tation as altered microtektites (Smit and Romein 1985 Sigurdsson et al 1991

Bohor et al 1993 Bohor and Glass 1995) Large-scale mass wasting has also been documented along the North Atlantic margins of North America and Europe including on Blake Plateau (ODP Site 1049) Bermuda Rise (DSDP Sites 386 and 387) the New Jersey margin (DSDP Site 605) and the Iberian abyssal plain (DSDP Site 398) (Klaus et al 2000 Norris et al 2000)

At distal sites (gt6000 km) the K-Pg boundary becomes a single layer with a fairly uniform 2ndash3 mm thickness and it has a chemical signature simi-lar to the upper layer in North America (eg Alvarez et al 1982 Rocchia et al 1992 Montanari and Koeberl 2000 Claeys et al 2002) See for example DSDP Site 738 on the southern Kerguelen Plateau (Thierstein et al 1991) DSDP Site 577 on Shatsky Rise (Zachos et al 1985) DSDP Site 525 in the South Atlantic (Li and Keller 1998) ODP Site 761 on Exmouth Plateau (Pospichal and Bralower 1992) and ODP Site 1262 on Walvis Ridge (Bernaola and Monechi 2007) The most abundant component (60ndash85) of the distal ejecta layer is microkrystites with a relict crystalline texture (Smit et al 1992) that are thought to have formed from liquid condensates within the expanding plume (Kyte and Smit 1986) Ubiquitous alteration of these microkrystites means that they are now primarily composed of clay (smec-tite illite and limonite) Some spherules contain skeletal magnesioferrite spinel (Smit and Kyte 1984 Kyte and Smit 1986 Robin et al 1991) that appears to be the only pristine phase to have survived dia-genetic alteration (Montanari et al 1983 Kyte and Bostwick 1995) Shocked min-erals are present in the K-Pg layer at all distances from Chicxulub and are co-located with the elevated iridium unit (Smit 1999)

DSDP ODP and IODP sites (Figure 2) have all been employed in mapping the global properties of the K-Pg layer Sites close to the crater appear to have a slightly lower total iridium flux at 10ndash45 times 10ndash9 g cmndash2 (eg Rocchia et al

1996 Claeys et al 2002 KG MacLeod et al 2007) as compared to a global aver-age of ~55 times 10ndash9 g cmndash2 (Kyte 2004) Maximum iridium concentrations are quite variable (lt 1 to gt 80 ppb Claeys et al 2002) Attempts have been made to locate the ultimate carrier of the iridium in the sediment layer but it is evidently too fine-grained to be identified with conventional techniques Siderophile trace elements in the distal and upper K-Pg layer exhibit a chondritic distribu-tion (Kyte et al 1985) the isotopic ratio of the platinum group element osmium is extraterrestrial (Luck and Turekian 1983 Meisel et al 1995) and the chro-mium isotopic composition indicates that the impactor was a carbonaceous chondrite (Kyte 1998 Shukolyukov and Lugmair 1998)

The most common explanation for the origin of the microtektites at prox-imal and intermediate sites is that they are formed from melted target rocks that were ejected from Chicxulub and solid-ified en route to their final destination (eg Pollastro and Bohor 1993 Alvarez et al 1995) Ejecta at distal sites and within the upper layer at intermediate sites including the shocked minerals and microkrystites are widely thought to have been launched on a ballistic trajectory from a rapidly expanding impact plume (Argyle 1989 Melosh et al 1990) There are however several observations that are difficult to reconcile with these expla-nations For example (1) microkrystites within the global layer all have roughly the same mean size (250 microm) and concentra-tion (20000 cmndash2) (Smit 1999) whereas shocked minerals show a clear decrease in number and size of grains with increas-ing distance from Chicxulub (Hildebrand et al 1991 Croskell et al 2002) (2) if shocked quartz were ejected at a high enough velocity to travel to the other side of the globe the quartz would anneal on reentry (Alvarez et al 1995 Croskell et al 2002) and (3) if the lower layer at intermediate sites were formed from melt droplets ejected from Chicxulub on a ballistic path the thickness of the


lower layer would decrease with dis-tance from Chicxulub whereas across North America it is close to constant The interaction of reentering ejecta with Earthrsquos atmosphere appears to be neces-sary to explain all of these observations with the ejecta being redistributed later-ally by atmospheric heating and expan-sion (Goldin and Melosh 2007 2008 Artemieva and Morgan 2009 Morgan et al 2013)

Differences in the K-Pg boundary layer around the globe have been used to infer different angles and directions for the Chicxulub impactor Schultz and DrsquoHondt (1996) argued that several fac-tors including the dual-layer stratig-raphy and particularly large fragments

of shocked quartz in North America indicated an impact direction toward the northwest However comparable 2 cm thick K-Pg layers at sites to the south of Chicxulub at equivalent paleo-distances have been identified (Schulte et al 2009 Bermuacutedez et al 2016) and it now appears that the ejecta layer is roughly symmetric with the number and size of shocked quartz grains decreasing with distance from Chicxulub (Croskell et al 2002 Morgan et al 2006) One asymmetric aspect of the layer is the spinel chemistry spinel from the Pacific (eg DSDP Site 577) is characterized by higher Mg and Al content than European (eg Gubbio Italy) and Atlantic spinel (eg DSDP Site 524 Kyte and Smit

1986) The higher Mg-Al Pacific spinel represents a higher temperature phase and thus the impact direction must have been toward the west because the plume would be hottest in the downrange direc-tion (Kyte and Bostwick 1995) However thermodynamic models of sequential condensation within the cooling impact plume suggest the opposite that the spinels from Europe and the Atlantic represent the higher temperature phases and thus that the impact direction was toward the east (Ebel and Grossman 2005) An argument that sought to use position of crater topography relative to the crater center (Schultz and DrsquoHondt 1996) has been questioned through com-parisons with Lunar and Venutian craters

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FIGURE 3 Representative K-Pg boundary sections from scientific ocean drilling cores The peak ring of the Chicxulub crater itself shows pelagic post-impact sediments overlaying downward-coarsening suevite on top of impact melt rock which in turn overlays fractured pre-impact granite cut by impact dikes (Morgan et al 2016) Eastern Gulf of Mexico cores show the proximal deep-sea expression of the boundary layer with massive slumps caused by platform margin collapse overlain by turbidites associated with secondary mass wasting overlain by fallout of iridium-rich clay (Sanford et al 2016) Blake Nose represents the dual-layer stratigraphy of many mid-distance localities with impact ejecta overlain by an iridium-rich clay layer (Schulte et al 2010) Shatsky Rise is typical of distal deep-sea sites with a color change the only core-scale evidence of the impact (Schulte et al 2010) The Chicxulub crater illustration is redrawn from Morgan et al (2016) the eastern Gulf of Mexico image is redrawn from Sanford et al (2016) and the Blake Nose and Shatsky Rise core photographs are from the IODP Janus database


with known impact trajectories (Ekholm and Melosh 2001 McDonald et al 2008) The best estimate of impact direc-tion to date based on three-dimensional numerical simulations of crater forma-tion that incorporate new data from IODP Site M0077 in the Chicxulub cra-ter indicates that an impact toward the southwest at a ~60deg angle produces the best match between the modeled and observed three-dimensional crater struc-ture (Collins et al 2017)

OCEAN DRILLING PERSPECTIVE ON MASS EXTINCTION AND THE SUBSEQUENT RECOVERY OF LIFEPaleontologists have long recognized a major mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous with the disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs marine reptiles and ammonites although the first indi-cation of the rapidity of this event came from microfossils The earliest studies of the extinction of the calcareous micro-fossils across the K-Pg boundary came from outcrops on land (eg Luterbacher and Premoli-Silva 1964 Perch Nielsen et al 1982 Percival and Fischer 1977 Romein 1977 Smit 1982 MJ Jiang and Gartner 1986 Hollis 1997 Harwood 1988 Hollis and Strong 2003) However the full taxonomic scope of the extinction and how it related to global biogeography and ecology is largely known from scien-tific ocean drilling (eg Thierstein and Okada 1979 Thierstein 1982 Pospichal and Wise 1990 N MacLeod et al 1997 Bown et al 2004) Deep-sea sites also serve as the basis for our understand-ing of the subsequent recovery of life (Bown 2005 Coxall et al 2006 Bernaola and Monechi 2007 S Jiang et al 2010 Hull and Norris 2011 Hull et al 2011 Koutsoukos 2014 Birch et al 2016 Lowery et al 2018) The K-Pg bound-ary has been recovered in dozens of cores from all major ocean basins includ-ing some from the earliest DSDP legs (Figure 2 Premoli Silva and Bolli 1973 Perch-Nielsen 1977 Thierstein and Okada 1979 see summary of terrestrial

and marine K-Pg sections in Schulte et al 2010) Deep-sea cores generally afford excellent microfossil preservation con-tinuous recovery and tight stratigraphic control including magnetostratigraphy and orbital chronology (Roumlhl et al 2001 Westerhold et al 2008)

Studies of deep-sea sections have exposed the severity of the mass extinc-tion among the calcareous plankton with over 90 of heterotroph foramin-ifera and autotroph nannoplankton spe-cies becoming extinct (Thierstein 1982 DrsquoHondt and Keller 1991 Coxall et al 2006 Hull et al 2011) The extinction was highly selective as siliceous groups experienced relatively low rates of extinc-tion (Harwood 1988 Hollis et al 2003) Among the calcareous plankton groups survivors include high-latitude and near-shore species (DrsquoHondt and Keller 1991 Bown 2005) suggesting that these species adapted to survive variable environments in the immediate aftermath of the impact Benthic foraminifera survived the impact with little extinction (Culver 2003)

A key component of the post- extinction recovery of life on Earth is the revival of primary productiv-ity Photosynthesis favors 12C over 13C enriching organic material in the former Sinking of dead organic matter in the ocean removes 12C from the upper water column thus under normal conditions there is a carbon isotope gradient from the surface waters to the seafloor After the Chicxulub impact this vertical gradi-ent was non-existent for ~4 million years (eg Coxall et al 2006) This phenom-enon was originally interpreted as indi-cating the complete or nearly complete cessation of surface ocean productivity (Hsuuml and McKenzie 1985 Zachos et al 1989 the latter from DSDP Site 577 on Shatsky Rise) a hypothesis that became known as the Strangelove Ocean (after the 1964 Stanley Kubrick movie Hsuuml and McKenzie 1985) DrsquoHondt et al (1998) suggested that surface ocean productiv-ity continued but the extinction of larger organisms meant that there was no easy mechanism (eg fecal pellets) to export

this organic matter to the deep seamdasha modification of the Strangelove Ocean hypothesis that they called the Living Ocean hypothesis (DrsquoHondt 2005 see also Adams et al 2004) The observed changes in carbon isotopes can be explained by just a slight increase (from 90 to 95) in the fraction of organic matter reminer-alized in the upper ocean (DrsquoHondt et al 1998 Alegret et al 2012) although a more precipitous drop in export produc-tivity (Coxall et al 2006) has also been suggested The lack of a corresponding benthic foraminiferal extinction indicates that the downward flux of organic car-bon may have decreased somewhat but remained sufficiently elevated to provide the carbon necessary to sustain the ben-thic community (Hull and Norris 2011 Alegret et al 2012) Research on barium fluxes in deep-sea sites across the ocean shows that in fact export productivity was highly variable in the early Danian (the age that immediately followed the end of the Cretaceous when K-Pg extinc-tion begins) with some sites recording an increase in export production during the period of supposed famine in the deep sea (Hull and Norris 2011)

However any shift in the surface-to-deep carbon isotope gradient does have significant implications for biogeochem-ical cycling The extinction of pelagic cal-cifiers such as planktic foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton caused pro-found changes in the cycling of carbon from the surface to the deep sea Pelagic calcifiers are a key component of the car-bon cycle as they export carbon in the form of CaCO3 from the surface ocean to the seafloor The near eradication of these groups must have made surface-to-deep cycling less efficient explain-ing the decreased carbon isotope gra-dient (Hilting et al 2008 Alegret et al 2012 Henehan et al 2016) This also led to the weakening of the marine ldquoalkalinity pumprdquo (DrsquoHondt 2005 Henehan et al 2016) The resulting carbonate oversatu-ration improved carbonate preservation in the deep sea which can be observed as a white layer that overlies the K-Pg


boundary at numerous sites including the eastern Gulf of Mexico (DSDP Site 536 Buffler et al 1984) the Caribbean (ODP Sites 999 and 1001 Sigurdsson et al 1997) Shatsky Rise in the western Pacific (Figure 3 ODP Sites 1209ndash1212 Bralower et al 2002) and in the Chicxulub crater (IODP Site M0077 Morgan et al 2017)

Records from cores across the ocean basins indicate that the post-extinction recovery of export productivity (eg Hull and Norris 2011) and calcareous plank-ton diversity (eg S Jiang et al 2010) was geographically heterogeneous with some localities recovering rapidly and others taking hundreds of thousands (for pro-ductivity) to millions (for diversity) of years to recover Among the nannoplank-ton Northern Hemisphere assemblages are characterized by a series of high- dominance low-diversity ldquoboom-bustrdquo species (Bown 2005) while Southern Hemisphere assemblages contain a some-what more diverse group of surviving species (Schueth et al 2015) In general diversity of Northern Hemisphere assem-blages took longer to recover (S Jiang et al 2010) Recovery of export produc-tivity likewise appears to have been slower in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico (eg S Jiang et al 2010 Hull and Norris 2011 Alegret et al 2012) suggesting that sites proximal to the impact crater had a slower recovery Some authors (eg S Jiang et al 2010) attributed this to direct environmental effects of the impact such as the uneven distribution of toxic metals in the ocean If recovery is slower closer to the crater then it should be slowest in the crater itself However recent drilling within the Chicxulub cra-ter shows rapid recovery of life with planktic and benthic organisms appear-ing within just a few years of the impact and a healthy high- productivity ecosys-tem established within 30000 years of the impact much faster than estimates for other Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic sites (Lowery et al 2018) This rapid recovery rules out an environ-mental driver for heterogeneous recov-ery and instead suggests that natural

ecological factors including incumbency competitive exclusion (eg Hull et al 2011 Schueth et al 2015) and morpho-space reconstruction (Lowery and Fraass 2018) were the dominant controls on the recovery of the marine ecosystem The recovery of diversity took millions of years to even begin to approach pre- impact Cretaceous levels (Bown et al 2004 Coxall et al 2006 Fraass et al 2015) This delay in the recovery of diver-sity appears to be a feature of all extinc-tion events (Kirchner and Weil 2000 Alroy 2008) and bodes ill for the recovery of the modern biosphere after negative anthropogenic impacts of for example ocean acidification and hypoxia subside

UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE CHICXULUB CRATERIn 2016 the joint IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 drilled into the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater at Site M0077 (Morgan et al 2017) Peak rings are elevated topography that pro-trude through the crater floor in the inner part of large impact structures Prior to drilling there was no consensus on the nature of the rocks that form peak rings or their formational mechanism (Baker et al 2016) To form large craters like Chicxulub rocks must temporarily behave in a fluid-like manner during cra-ter formation (Melosh 1977 Riller et al 2018) Two hypotheses developed from observations of craters on other planets provided possible explanations for the processes by which peak rings form The first the dynamic collapse model (first put forward by Murray 1980) predicted that the Chicxulub peak ring would be formed from deep crustal rock pre-sumably crystalline basement The sec-ond the nested melt-cavity hypothesis (conceived by Cintala and Grieve 1998) predicted that the Chicxulub peak ring would be underlain by shallow crustal rock presumably Cretaceous carbonates Thus Expedition 364 was able to answer a major question about impact cratering processes simply by determining what rock comprises the peak ring (Figure 3)

Geophysical data acquired prior to drill-ing indicated that there are sedimen-tary rocks several kilometers beneath the Chicxulub peak ring and that the peak-ring rocks have a relatively low veloc-ity and density suggesting that they are highly fractured (Morgan et al 1997 Morgan and Warner 1999 Gulick et al 2008 2013 Morgan et al 2011)

The discovery that the peak ring was formed from fractured shocked uplifted granitic basement rocks supports the dynamic collapse model of peak-ring formation (Morgan et al 2016 Kring et al 2017) Structural data from wire-line logging CT scans and visual core descriptions provide an exceptional record of brittle and viscous deforma-tion mechanisms within the peak-ring rocks These data reveal how deformation evolved during cratering with dramatic weakening followed by a gradual increase in rock strength (Riller et al 2018) The peak-ring rocks have extraordinary phys-ical properties the granitic basement has P-wave velocities and densities that are respectively ~25 and ~10 lower than expected and a porosity of 8ndash10 These values are consistent with numer-ical simulations that predict the peak-ring basement rocks represent some of the most shocked and damaged rocks in an impact basin (Christeson et al 2018) Site M0077 cores and measurements have been used to refine numerical models of the impact and provide new estimates on the release of cooling climatic gases by the Chicxulub impact Previous stud-ies estimated that the Chicxulub impact released anywhere from 30ndash1920 Gt of sulfur from the evaporite-rich target rocks and formed sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere that block incoming solar radiation (see Tyrrell et al 2015 and references therein)mdasha recent global cli-mate model indicates that a modest injec-tion of 100 Gt of sulfur may have resulted in a 26degC drop in global temperatures (Brugger et al 2017) New impact mod-els calibrated with data from Site M0077 suggest that between 195 Gt and 455 Gt of sulfur were released and may have led


to even more radical cooling during the so-called ldquoimpact winterrdquo (Artemieva et al 2017) However it appears that only the most extreme estimates of sul-fur release would have driven ocean acid-ification severe enough to explain the extinction of calcareous plankton (Tyrrell et al 2015) suggesting that the sharp reduction in sunlight for photosynthesis drove the extinction

NEW CHALLENGESThe scientific communityrsquos understand-ing of the Chicxulub impact event and the K-Pg mass extinction has grown immensely since Smit and Hertogen (1980) and Alvarez et al (1980) proposed the impact hypothesis and many of the advances were the direct result of scien-tific ocean drilling data However there is still a great deal that we do not know New K-Pg boundary sites from under-sampled regions (the Pacific the Indian Ocean and the high latitudes) are essen-tial to reconstruct environmental gradi-ents in the early Paleocene and to under-stand geographic patterns of recovery and global environmental effects as well as what drives them IODP Site U1514 on the Naturaliste Plateau on the Southwest Australian margin (Figure 2) drilled in 2017 on Expedition 369 (Huber et al 2018) is a perfect example of the kind of new site we need to drillmdashat a high latitude and far from existing K-Pg boundary records

New data from the Chicxulub crater have resulted in refined impact models that suggest the asteroid impacted toward the southwest (Collins et al 2017) in con-trast with previously inferred directions that placed the Northern Hemisphere in the downrange direction Although the most proximal Pacific crust at the time of impact has since been subducted very lit-tle drilling has been conducted on older crust in the central and eastern Pacific (red circle in Figure 2) New drilling on seamounts and rises on the easternmost Cretaceous crust in the equatorial Pacific could shed new light on the environ-mental and biological consequences of

the Chicxulub impact in a close-by and downrange location Samples from these locations may finally yield some frag-ments of the impactor

In the end the Chicxulub struc-ture remains an important drilling tar-get to address questions that can only be answered at the K-Pg impact site IODP Site M0077 which was drilled at the loca-tion where the peak ring was shallow-est recovered a relatively thin Paleocene section with an unconformity present prior to the Paleocene-Eocene bound-ary Seismic mapping within the crater demonstrates that the Paleocene section greatly expands into the annular trough (Figure 4) providing an exciting oppor-tunity to study the return of life to the impact crater at an even higher resolu-tion than Lowery et al (2018) achieved Additionally continuous coring within an expanded Paleocene section and the underlying impactites would better con-strain climatologic inputs from the vapor-ization of evaporites

Equally intriguing is the interaction of impact melt rock suevite and post- impact hydrothermal systems for study-ing how subsurface life can inhabit and evolve within an impact basin Such set-tings were common on early Earth and

provide an analog for the chemical evo-lution of pre-biotic environments as well as biologic evolution in extreme environ-ments Full waveform images (Figure 4) suggest tantalizing morphologic com-plexities within the low-velocity suevite layer above the high-velocity central melt sheet that are tempting to interpret as ancient hydrothermal vent systems of the kind often seen at mid-ocean ridges Drilling into the Chicxulub melt sheet would be ideal for studying the hydro-geology and geomicrobiology of impact melt sheets buried by breccias as a (new) habitat for subsurface life providing an opportunity for scientific ocean drilling to sample the best analog for the habitat in which life may have initially formed on early Earth and on rocky bodies across the solar system and beyond

The successful cooperation between IODP and ICDP during Expedition 364 serves as a model for future drilling in the Chicxulub crater as well as for future IODP mission-specific platform expe-ditions High-quality marine seismic data from an offshore portion of the Chicxulub crater (Morgan et al 1997 Gulick et al 2008 Christeson et al 2018) permitted detailed characteriza-tion of the subsurface before drilling even

Impact Petrologists Ludovic Ferriegravere (Natural History Museum Austria) and Naotaka Tomioka (JAMSTEC) at the visual core description table at the IODP Bremen Core Repository during the onshore science party for IODP Expedition 364 Chicxulub Drilling the K-Pg Impact Crater Photo credit V Diekamp ECORDIODP


began (Whalen et al 2013) In turn this allowed Hole M0077A to precisely target not just the peak ring but a small depres-sion on top of the peak ring expected to contain earliest Paleocene age sediments that provided the basis for unprecedented study of this unique interval at ground zero (Lowery et al 2018 and a number of upcoming papers) As we plan for the next 50 years of scientific ocean drilling we should look for additional opportuni-ties to leverage the clarity and resolution of marine seismic data with the preci-sion drilling possible from a stable plat-form provided by ICDP (Expedition 364 achieved essentially 100 recovery Morgan et al 2017)

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FIGURE 4 (a) Full wavefield inverted (FWI) velocity model (colors) and migrated seismic reflection image for profile CHIX 10 crossing IODP Hole M0077A (black line) The seismic image has been converted to depth using the inverted velocity model Potential sites for future drilling are shown with white lines Drilling in the annular trough site would encounter an expanded Paleocene section underlain by suevite (low veloci-ties) and possible impact melt rock (high velocities) Coring in the central basin site would target an inter-preted hydrothermal upflow zone (disrupted low velocities) above the impact melt sheet (high veloc-ities) as well as an expanded Paleocene section (b) Location map showing the gravity-indicated struc-ture of the crater and the position of the seismic line used in (a) Modified from Gulick et al (2008)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe would like to thank the editors for inviting us to contribute to this special issue and Ellen Thomas and Mark Leckie for their thoughtful reviews We are also grateful to Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink for sharing his osmium isotope data set and Ian Norton and Jeremy Owens for their help with the paleo-geographic map projection We acknowledge NSF OCE 1737351 for CL TB SG and GC and NERC NEP0052171 for JM Finally we gratefully acknowl-edge the shipboard and shore-based scientists who worked to generate these data over the past 50 years of scientific ocean drilling

AUTHORSChristopher M Lowery (cmloweryutexasedu) is Research Associate University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Jackson School of Geosciences Austin TX USA Joanna V Morgan is Professor Department of Earth Science and Engineering Imperial College London UK Sean PS Gulick is Research Professor University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Jackson School of Geosciences Austin TX USA Timothy J Bralower is Professor Department of Geosciences Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA Gail L Christeson is Senior Research Scientist University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Jackson School of Geosciences Austin TX USA The other Expedition 364 Scientists Elise Chenot Philippe Claeys Charles Cockell Marco JL Coolen Ludovic Ferriegravere Catalina Gebhardt Kazuhisa Goto Sophie Green Heather Jones David A Kring Johanna Lofi Claire Mellett Rubeacuten Ocampo-Torres Ligia Perez-Cruz Annemarie Pickersgill Michael Poelchau Auriol Rae Cornelia Rasmussen Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra Ulrich Riller Honami Sato Jan Smit Sonia Tikoo Naotaka Tomioka Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi Michael Whalen Axel Wittmann Long Xiao and Kosei Yamaguchi

ARTICLE CITATIONLowery CM JV Morgan SPS Gulick TJ Bralower GL Christeson and the Expedition 364 Scientists 2019 Ocean drilling perspectives on meteorite impacts Oceanography 32(1)120ndash134 httpsdoiorg 105670oceanog2019133


OCEAN DRILLING PERSPECTIVES ON

MeteoriteImpactsBy Christopher M Lowery Joanna V Morgan

Sean PS Gulick Timothy J Bralower

Gail L Christeson and the Expedition 364 Scientists

Derrick of the platform Liftboat Myrtle at night Photo credit E Le Ber ECORDIODP

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