Standing on the Deccan Traps (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Standing on the Deccan Traps

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Princeton geoscientists Blair Schoene and Gerta Keller led an international team of researchers who have assembled the first high-resolution timeline for the massive eruptions in India's Deccan Traps, determining that the largest eruption pulse started less than 100,000 years before the mass extinction that killed the (non-avian) dinosaurs. 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. From left: Syed Khadri, a professor of geology at Baba Amravati University; Kyle Samperton, a 2017 Princeton graduate alumnus; Mike Eddy of the Princeton Class of 2011, now a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton; Preston Kemeny of the Princeton Class of 2015.

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Blair Schoene, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

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