Deccan Traps

Cretaceous-Tertiary stratigraphic boundary (Bajpai, 2000). Around this time of high volcanism, a mantle superplume deposited great amounts of basalt, which flooded into the Deccan Plateau, to form large lava beds, which are now called the Deccan Traps (Keller, 2014). The Deccan Traps cover about 200,000 miles, and at such large scale, these traps also dispersed tremendous amounts of dust and ash in the atmosphere (Keller, 2014). The second “intrinsic” hypothesis revolves around plate tectonics. During the Cretaceous-Tertiary

The K-Pg event, the day life on earth was wiped out, is one of the most notorious extinctions in the history of the world. From jawed fish, to plants, to crocodyliforms (10 species’ fossils have been found, 5 of which are extinct), even a species of pterosaurs, life was extinguished; however, what happened to the creatures? What truly killed the dinosaurs? There are many theories but some ideas are downright insane. Some older ideas consist of comets dusting the Earth with a poisonous gas, or the

section. If they focus on either one, they might have succeeded. Or they can go for low cost airlines at domestic level to fulfill needs of large Indian population and go for luxury airlines at international level. 2) Acquisition of Air Deccan: Kingfisher acquires Air Deccan to get the international airlines flying license. They should use their aircrafts to increase its connectivity to major flying routes in India at a lower cost than other competitors in India, due to having more number of air crafts

catastrophic events, such as massive asteroid impacts, and increased volcanic activity, however, the volcanic activity appearing to be anterior. The dating of several impact craters and that of rocks resulting from massive volcanic activity in the Deccan traps coincide

End Cretaceous Mass Extinction "By The end of the Mesozoic Era one massive extinction occurred known as The Cretaceous Mass Extinction.This Extinction was assumed to have been caused as result of two mechanism recognized as the impact and the flood volcanism hypothesis". The impact hypothesis which is the asteroid discovered by the physicist luiz Alvarez played a role in causing the cretaceous mass extinction It was supported through evidence these facts are: Alvarez discovered unusually high

The Cretaceous mass extinction had two theories on how and why it happened through the impact hypothesis. The first one was suggested that an asteroid collided with Earth 65 million years ago. Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter Alvarez found “high levels of the rare metal iridium” in the layers of the Earth during the periods of the Cretaceous and Tertiary located in Italy. Their proof is that it was the cause of extinction by an asteroid the size of 10 kilometers. The second impact hypothesis was

An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on Earth. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the rate of speciation. Extinction occurs at an uneven rate. The most recent and debatably best-known, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago (Ma), was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically short period of

The mass extinction of the dinosaurs happened approximately 65 million years ago and was Mass extinction of the Dinosaurs the most dramatic extinction in the history of the Earth. ( national geographic, 2015 ) The dinosaur extinction could have been sudden or gradual depending on the cause. Scientists have thoroughly researched and finally found two major options, the asteroid impact theory and the volcanic theory, that have many similar qualities, but on the other hand are very different. These

Iridium, chromium isotopic anomalies, and shocked quartz have been found along the K=T boundary and impact zone, making this one of the best supported mass extinction theories out there (Mayell). Another theory that is gaining traction is about the Deccan Traps in India, which would have been active volcanoes during the

indicate their differences. The Volcano theory, affecting the wide-spread area of India has been proven as a major factor to the discovery of why the dinosaurs became extinct. Research indicates that 65 million years ago, monstrous lava beds called Deccan traps covered the surface of the earth, over an area of 500 000 square kilometres (Weishampel, 2017). Each lava bed released unimaginable amounts of noxious gases, leading to a block of sunlight in the atmosphere, resulting in all plant life on earth