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Deccan Traps in Mahabaleshwar, India

Deccan Traps in Mahabaleshwar, India
These mountains are carved entirely out of the ancient basalt lava. thois vast volcanic province erupted around the same time as the End-Cretaceous mass extinction with enough lava to cover the continental United States in lava 600 feet deep (Image: Gerta Keller)

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 Dinesh
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Amazingly, the Deccan Traps are still erupting today. On the eastern flank of the island nation of Reunion, 500 miles est of Madagascar, the Reunion Hotspot that once gushed from India still gushes lava. The Piton de la Fournaise volcano, and indeed the entire country of Reunion, is just the latest expression of this anomalously not section of earth’s mantle – one that has a hoary legacy dating back to the end of the Cretaceous. . . . In the 66b million years since the eruption of the Deccan Traps, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps the hot spot has pierced the crust to create the Maldives, the Scychelles, and Mauritius before arriving at its present location underneath Reunion. But this hot spot first began to seethe under India.

Today in the Western India, 11,500-foot-tall bar-coded mountains like the jagged, banded basalt peaks of Mahabaleshwar, have been carved from this surfeit of molten rock. Ancient lava from the Deccan Traps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps is even found spilling over off the other side of the subcontinent, into the Bay of Bengal, transported there by “the most extensive and voluminous lava flows known on Earth.” These molten rivers carried about 2,400 cubic miles of lava over a distance of perhaps almost 1,000 miles, or roughly the distance between Chicago and Boston. ~

. . . .After perilous journeys up and around the Western Ghats, sharing cliff-hugging roads with daredevil motorists, the group sampled rocks from the staggering peaks of Mahabaleshwar. Richard and company were especially curious about the apparent break in the rocks partway up the lava pile. After the first few spurt of lave at the base of the Traps, something fundamentally changed in the rocks. This was the beginning of the Wai subgroud, a monstrous stack of lavas within the pile that accounts for at least 70 percent of the entire Decan Traps.



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4 months ago. Edited 4 months ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
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Stunning mountain scene.
4 months ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
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Magnificent landscape, Dinesh !
4 months ago.
 Nora Caracci
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spectacular !!!
3 months ago.

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