The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

Deccan Traps, the volcanoes that could have wiped out the dinosaurs Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Deccan ...

For a long time, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to die out 66 million years ago. Was it a huge asteroid or ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

New evidence has been found the support the theory that a series of volcanic eruptions in the Deccan Traps might have triggered Earth’s mass extinction 66 million years ago. Volcanoes ...

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 ...

Searching for missing pieces to the puzzle, the study team delved into the historic volcanic eruptions of the Deccan Traps – ...

The Deccan Traps eruptions slightly postdate the calamitous demise of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period about 65 Ma. In the early 1980s scientists suspected that the enormous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Immense lava flows cover nearly 200,000 square miles of the Deccan region of India ... that they could also be the result of volcanic eruptions. Fossil Record A gradual decline in the number ...