Here, researchers stand atop a massive basalt flow of the Mahabaleshwar Formation of the Deccan Traps at the Sinhagad Fort, located on a dramatic cliff in the Sahyadri Mountains.

Knowledge and study of the Deccan Traps eruptions have consistently cast a shadow of doubt on the theory that the Chicxulub impact was the sole cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, most ...

Deep drills into millions of years-old volcanic rock of the Deccan Traps in peninsular India have unearthed a teeming microbial community 1,500 metres below the earth’s surface. The array of ...

For their study, the team measured the amount of CO 2 inside of tiny droplets of frozen magma trapped inside Deccan Traps crystals from the end-Cretaceous time period.

Their timeline suggests that the Deccan Traps erupted in four 100,000-year events, each releasing a significant amount of greenhouse gases and magma.

In the study, published in the journal Science, Geologists examined the timing of the already well-researched volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in western India, and found that those eruptions ...

LOST WORLD The massive volcanic eruptions that formed the Deccan Traps rock formation (shown) in Western India may have helped bring down the dinosaurs, new dating suggests.

Deccan Traps in modern-day India belched out toxic lava, mercury and CO2 for a million years, which together with the devastating asteroid pushed animals over the edge towards extinction.

Deccan Traps at the Ajanta Caves. Wikipedia The K-Pg extinction appears to have occurred during a period of carbonate saturation state variability caused by Deccan volcanism, the authors note.

The Deccan Traps refers to massive volcanic outflows covering marine sediments uplifted during the formation of the Himalayas. The Deccan plateau covers much of north-western India.