Giant asteroid may have triggered deadly volcano eruptions
Time of Cretaceous impact coincides with rising volume of lava flows
![Deccan Traps with map](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/100115_ss_volcanomain_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
LAVA LAYERS Floods of lava formed the layers of rock in India’s Deccan Traps. Scientists sampled these layers (from location marked with a box on the map) and found that an increase in Deccan volcanism occurred within 50,000 years of the Chicxulub asteroid impact and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Mark Richards/UC Berkeley (photo); Paul Renne/Berkeley Geochronology Center (map)