Two hundred and fifty two years ago, huge volcanoes erupted in Siberia and continued to put out basalt lava and clouds of gases for up to five hundred thousand years (Benton 1). They were not the average cone shaped volcanoes we know today, instead they are huge rifts in the Earth’s crust (Benton 2). There is much evidence of the Deccan Traps in India took place around the same time as the dinosaur extinction. The Deccan Traps erupted on a huge scale, which could create a huge impact on the atmosphere and climate. This theory is the main alternative to the meteorite impact and can explain many of the observations including the shocked quarts and the glassy spherules (“Crazy Theorie”
Two hundred and fifty two years ago, huge volcanoes erupted in Siberia and continued to put out basalt lava and clouds of gases for up to five hundred thousand years (Benton 1). They were not the average cone shaped volcanoes we know today, instead they are huge rifts in the Earth’s crust (Benton 2). There is much evidence of the Deccan Traps in India took place around the same time as the dinosaur extinction. The Deccan Traps erupted on a huge scale, which could create a huge impact on the atmosphere and climate. This theory is the main alternative to the meteorite impact and can explain many of the observations including the shocked quarts and the glassy spherules (“Crazy Theorie”