The best-preserved large impact crater on Earth is overlain by a kilometre of sediment. It is possible to look not only through that wrapping but also beyond, at the effects of the impact at the crust–mantle boundary.
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Melosh, J. Deep down at Chicxulub. Nature 414, 861–862 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/414861a
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