For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

But we had to find a way to test if these changes are caused by large-scale volcanic eruptions related to the Deccan Traps in India," says Westerhold. The up to two-kilometers-thick basaltic rocks ...

Here we are talking about Which Region Of India Is Known As The Basalt Region and what is the raeson behind it? Check out the ...

A definitive geological timeline from Princeton University researchers shows that a series of massive eruptions 66 million ... western India known as the Deccan Traps played a role in the ...

Recent research on the 66 million years old eruptions of the Deccan Traps (India) by Dr. Vanderkluysen and colleagues has focused on the timing of these massive eruptions and their impact on the ...

The authors describe those eruptions as "on par with the largest eruptive events in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, including the Deccan Traps." Part of the debate about what really killed the ...

This is a map showing the extent of the Deccan Traps volcanic region in India ... lava samples used in the new precision dating of the eruptions around the time of the asteroid or comet impact ...