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This is the first I've heard of the Deccan Traps. Interestingly, they're "almost" on the opposite side of the globe from the Chicxulub impact (21'N 90'W to 17'N
by agrona 14y ago
This is the first I've heard of the Deccan Traps. Interestingly, they're "almost" on the opposite side of the globe from the Chicxulub impact (21'N 90'W to 17'N 77'E).
I wonder if their formation or activity might have been caused by the impact?
- fhars 14y agoThe Deccan lava flows started about three million years earlier, see for example http://www.ias.ac.in/jessci/jun2001/1352.pdf http://www.ias.ac.in/jessci/jun2001/1352.pdf