Adriana Ocampo has led six research expeditions to study what geological formation that is more than 180 km in diameter and 20 km in depth
Adriana Ocampo Adriana Ocampo is a Colombian planetary geologist and the Science Program Manager at NASA Headquarters. Her research contributed to the understanding of the Chicxulub impact crater. She has led six research expeditions to the Chicxulub impact site. Ocampo and her colleagues also discovered the Aorounga Crater Chain in Chad in 1996.
Wallaby Plateau The Wallaby Plateau, which is also known as the Cuvier Plateau, is a large bathymetric high that is located about 450 km west of Carnarvon, Western Australia. The Wallaby Plateau covers approximately 100,000 km2 and lies in water depths of 2,200 m to greater than 5,000 m . In the west, the Wallaby Plateau is separated from the Zenith Plateau by a 100-150 km wide, north to northeast-trending bathymetric trough. "Wallaby Plateau" is the name used by the Australian geologists and government for this undersea plateau. This name was first used in a "Hartog" AGSO bathymetric map and formally recognized in a peer-reviewed paper by Symonds and Cameron in 1977. In contrast, the internationally recognized name for it is "Cuvier Plateau". "Cuvier" is a historical name that is presumably derived from the adjacent Cape Cuvier. Cape Cuvier was named for Georges Cuvier, zoologist and statesman, by a French expedition led by Baudin in 1800 – 1803. The Wallaby Plateau lies inside the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone.