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U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Published:2015-01-09 Issue:6218 Volume:347 Page:182-184
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Schoene Blair¹,Samperton Kyle M.¹,Eddy Michael P.²,Keller Gerta¹,Adatte Thierry³,Bowring Samuel A.²,Khadri Syed F. R.⁴,Gertsch Brian³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

2. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

3. Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTE), Université de Lausanne, GEOPOLIS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

4. Department of Geology, Amravati University, Amravati, India.

Abstract

Dating the influence of Deccan Traps eruptions The Deccan Traps flood basalts in India represent over a million cubic kilometers of erupted lava. These massive eruptions occurred around the same time as the end-Cretaceous mass extinction some 65 million years ago, which famously wiped out all nonavian dinosaurs. Schoene et al. determined the precise timing and duration of the main phase of the eruptions, which lasted over 750,000 years and occurred just 250,000 years before the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The relative contribution of these eruptions and of the Chicxulub impact in Mexico to the mass extinction remains unclear, but both provide potential kill mechanisms. Science , this issue p. 182

Funder

Office of International Science and Engineering

Department of Geosciences Scott Fund at Princeton University

U.S. NSF

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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