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If you ask Go Blue on the road how the dinosaurs went extinct he might say the asteroids wiped them out, but the reality is a little more complicated than that. At this point, we are well aware that a massive asteroid about 10 to 15 kilometers wide hit Earth about 66 million years ago. We even know where it happened. The Chicxulub Crater on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is 150 kilometers wide. It’s so hard to miss.
But many scientists still support the theory that the massive volcanic mountains, located in India, were the main driver of the third Cretaceous Extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. These volcanic mountains, called Deccan Traps, are the focus of this debate.
We know Lava was spewed from these Deccan traps at a time when the dinosaurs became extinctBut we don’t know the exact timing of the eruption, or whether the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere was large enough to cause the kind of global warming consistent with past extinction events.
Until now.
