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K–Ar Age of the Deccan Traps, India

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THE Deccan Traps comprise one of the largest volumes of basaltic volcanics known, covering an area of about 500,000 sq. km in western and central India. Their age and range of age have been the subjects of much debate in the past. In summing up the stratigraphic evidence for the age of the traps, Krishnan states1 that their base lies, in various places, on marine beds of Danian age (Cardita beaumonti beds), of Cenomanian to Senonian age (Bagh beds), and of roughly Turonian age (Lametas). Non-marine sediments within the Deccan Traps (Intertrappean beds) contain fossil plants and fish that are thought to be of Palaeocene age. In several places sediments overlying the traps are Palaeocene in age.

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WELLMAN, P., MCELHINNY, M. K–Ar Age of the Deccan Traps, India. Nature 227, 595–596 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227595a0

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