The studies agree that the Deccan Traps eruptions occurred over the course of a million years, beginning about 400,000 years before the mass extinction and continuing for about 500,000 years after.

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.

A new timeline for massive bursts of volcanic gases suggests the Deccan Traps eruptions weren’t the real dinosaur killer 66 million years ago.

However, soils buried between some lava flows suggest the Deccan Traps were on a break before the impact. Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.

However, this hypothesis remained very much untested and controversial, until now. Vanderkluysen was among the group of researchers, primarily from the University of California, Berkeley, that dated ...

But scientists have also pointed to another culprit: the Deccan Traps in present-day India, one of the largest volcanic provinces in the world, which just happened to be going gangbusters at the ...

Recent oil and gas discoveries by India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) below the Deccan Traps region of the north-west of the country could unlock potentially huge resources if proved ...

They argue that the asteroid impact could have caused mega-earthquakes that triggered the volcanism at Deccan Traps—which is almost directly opposite the Yucatan impact site.

A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan ...

Vanderkluysen was among the group of researchers, primarily from the University of California, Berkeley, that dated the vast lava flows known as the Deccan Traps in India using radiation measurements.