1 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science
Sorry - what are the Deccan traps?
Comment by qeveren at 07/12/2023 at 05:21 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
They're a large igneous province, the result of a type of large-scale volcanism called a flood basalt. In the case of the Deccan Traps[1], this produced upwards of a million cubic kilometers of lava over the course of several tens of thousands of years.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps
Comment by atomfullerene at 07/12/2023 at 05:14 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Huge volcanic eription