Deccan Traps Large Igneous Province (Flood Basalt) (IMAGE)

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Deccan Traps Large Igneous Province (Flood Basalt)

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A view of the cliffs cutting through the Deccan Traps from near Mahabaleshwar, illustrating the dramatic landscape and thickness of the basaltic pile, which reaches over 11,000 feet. 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 occurred less than 100,000 years before the mass extinction that killed the (non-avian) dinosaurs.

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Gerta Keller, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

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