When India Was Flooded by a Mile Thick of Lava; The Deccan Traps

There was once a time when much of India was coated in an active layer of lava more than a mile thick. As fissures hundreds of miles in length simultaneously erupted, significant volumes of lava were emplaced. This is the story of India's Deccan Traps Flood Basalts, which have left a lasting effect on the nation's modern geography. Note: The Deccan Traps are long extinct and will never erupt again. However, there were multiple times during when it was active approximately 66 million years ago that a mile thick of lava existed in certain spots, as mentioned in this video's thumbnail image. Thumbnail Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Public Domain, https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/kil.... This image was then overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon:   / geologyhub  ) (YouTube membership:    / @geologyhub  ) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image: Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Sources/Citations: [1] Götze J, Hofmann B, Machałowski T, Tsurkan MV, Jesionowski T, Ehrlich H, Kleeberg R, Ottens B. Biosignatures in Subsurface Filamentous Fabrics (SFF) from the Deccan Volcanic Province, India. Minerals. 2020; 10(6):540. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10060540, CC BY 4.0 [2] Blair Schoene et al., U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Science 363, 862-866 (2019). DOI: 10.1126/science.aau2422 [3] Victor E. Camp, Martin E. Ross, Robert A. Duncan, Nicholas A. Jarboe, Robert S. Coe, Barry B. Hanan, Jenda A. Johnson, 2013. "The Steens Basalt: Earliest lavas of the Columbia River Basalt Group", The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province, Stephen P. Reidel, Victor E. Camp, Martin E. Ross, John A. Wolff, Barton S. Martin, Terry L. Tolan, Ray E. Wells 0:00 A Changed Landscape 1:47 Flood Basalt Formation 2:34 Ancient Location 4:29 Zeolites