Deccan Traps
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13 mentions
6 recordings
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Sep
↑11 vs the 12 months before
Massive volcanic province in western India producing flood basalts
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Peak in the week of 11 Aug — 5 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJames StewartAstrum Space · This New Evidence Could Rewrite the Dinosaur Extinction | As... · 22:22 · 16 Sep
…The Deccan Traps covers an area 500,000 square kilometres in western India.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Extinction of the Dinosaurs ☄️🦖 | A Warning for H... · 4:48:23 · 16 Aug
…It is written in the thinning of the fossil record across the Alberta sequence, in the iridium layer at the KPG boundary, in the sulfur signatures of the Deccan traps preserved in ancient ice, in the bones of the last triceratops in the rock.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Extinction of the Dinosaurs ☄️🦖 | A Warning for H... · 4:12:30 · 16 Aug
…The Deccan traps, as we discussed in the chapter devoted to them, represent the historical extreme of what large scale volcanism can do to the biosphere over extended periods.…
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