Posted on 10/31/2007 3:08:40 PM PDT by blam
Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
EurekAlert | 10/30/07 | Gerta Keller, etal
Posted on 10/30/2007 4:31:46 PM EDT by crazyshrink
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Deccan Traps?
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The Deccan beyond the plume hypothesis
http://www.mantleplumes.org/Deccan.html
The widely accepted mantle plume model (e.g., Morgan, 1981; Richards et al., 1989; Campbell & Griffiths, 1990) postulates that (i) the currently active Réunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, is fed by the narrow “tail” of a mantle plume that rises from the core-mantle boundary, (ii) the Deccan continental flood basalt (CFB) province of India originated from the “head” of the same plume during its early eruptive phase near the end of the Cretaceous, and (iii) the Lakshadweep-Chagos Ridge, an important linear volcanic ridge in the Indian Ocean, is a product of this plume. It is not generally appreciated, however, that this so-called “classic” case of a plume contradicts the plume model in many ways. ... snip
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