Kimberlites, flood basalts and mantle plumes: New insights from the Deccan Large Igneous Province

NVC Rao, B Lehmann - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A clear-cut temporal and spatial relationship between small-volume, volatile-rich and highly
potassic continental melt fractions, such as kimberlites and related rocks, and large-volume …

State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact

PR Renne, CJ Sprain, MA Richards, S Self… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Bolide impact and flood volcanism compete as leading candidates for the cause of terminal-
Cretaceous mass extinctions. High-precision 40Ar/39Ar data indicate that these two …

[КНИГА][B] The making of India: geodynamic evolution

KS Valdiya - 2015 - books.google.com
This book presents in a concise format a simplified and coherent geological-dynamical
history of the Indian subcontinent (including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Southern …

Fossil records in the Lythraceae

SA Graham - The Botanical Review, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Lythraceae (Myrtales) are a family of 28 genera and ca. 600 species
constituting with the Combretaceae and sister family Onagraceae a major lineage of the …

Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact

MA Richards, W Alvarez, S Self, L Karlstrom… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New constraints on the timing of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction and the
Chicxulub impact, together with a particularly voluminous and apparently brief eruptive …

Nature and timing of extinctions in Cretaceous-Tertiary planktic foraminifera preserved in Deccan intertrappean sediments of the Krishna–Godavari Basin, India

G Keller, T Adatte, PK Bhowmick, H Upadhyay… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
In C29r below the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (KTB) massive Deccan Trap eruptions in
India covered an area the size of France or Texas and produced the world's largest and …

Deccan volcanism linked to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary mass extinction: New evidence from ONGC wells in the Krishna-Godavari Basin

G Keller, PK Bhowmick, H Upadhyay, A Dave… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Springer
A scientific challenge is to assess the role of Deccan volcanism in the Cretaceous-Tertiary
boundary (KTB) mass extinction. Here we report on the stratigraphy and biologic effects of …

Faunal elements from the Deccan volcano‐sedimentary sequences of India: A reappraisal of biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic, and palaeobiogeographic aspects

VV Kapur, A Khosla - Geological Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The sedimentary sequences associated with the Deccan Flood Basalts, ie, infratrappean
and intertrappean deposits, are known to yield a diverse assemblage of fauna that includes …

Late Cretaceous–Paleogene Indian monsoon climate vis-à-vis movement of the Indian plate, and the birth of the South Asian Monsoon

H Bhatia, MA Khan, G Srivastava, T Hazra… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract After India separated from Gondwana, its 9000 km northward voyage from the
Southern Hemisphere to its modern position joined with Eurasia took 160 million years …

New mammals from the Naskal intertrappean site and the age of India's earliest eutherians

GPW Mantilla, PR Renne, B Samant… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
The first Cretaceous mammals described from India were recovered from the Naskal locality,
on the southeastern edge of the Deccan Traps Volcanic Province (DTVP), where it is …