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tandjmohr t1_j4wuw43 wrote

Reply to comment by icbmike_for_realz in Extinction of the Dinosaurs: What did I miss? by cakedayCountdown

In this specific case they are referring to Flood Volcanism. The Deccan Traps (I probably spelled that wrong) are a large igneous province in India where, about the same time as the Dino asteroid (geologically speaking), large cracks opened in the crust and absolutely immense volumes of basaltic lava poured out in flows hundreds of feet thick covering thousands of square miles one on top of the other. The cumulative depth of these flows are measured in miles.

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icbmike_for_realz t1_j4wzltr wrote

Over what time span did these flows spread?
Would an individual dinosaur be overtaken or could they run away?

Or were they pressured by being pushed out of their environments?

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tandjmohr t1_j4x81hw wrote

Some of the individual flows happened within 50,000 years of each other. I believe the total time of the flows was 750,000 to a million years or so.

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