Volcanoes, Not Meteorite, Killed Dinosaurs?

Scientist argues that volcanoes, not meteorite, killed dinosaurs

She says lava of Deccan Traps in India may have led to global warming, ocean acidification

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New research argues that volcanic activity from the Deccan Traps in India, not a meteorite impact, killed the dinosaurs.

By Tia Ghose

 

updated 12/7/2012 12:58:15 PM ET

 

SAN FRANCISCO — Volcanic activity in modern-day India, not an asteroid, may have killed the dinosaurs, according to a new study. 

Tens of thousands of years of lava flow from the Deccan Traps, a volcanic region near Mumbai in present-day India, may have spewed poisonous levels of sulfur and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and caused the mass extinction through the resulting global warming and ocean acidification, the research suggests.

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