Presently a second group of American researchers have tested

history channel documentary science Presently a second group of American researchers have tested the space rock/shooting star hypothesis and suggested that enormous volcanic emissions in India prompted the destruction of the Dinosaurs and around 65% of all life on Earth. New investigations of the huge basaltic magma streams of western and focal India - known as the Deccan Traps, show that the most vicious and wrecking ejections are dated nearly to the mass termination occasion.

Volcanic action on this scale would have tossed out into the air immense volumes of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, significantly changing the world's atmosphere and prompting the breakdown of whole biological communities.

The Deccan Traps is one of the biggest volcanic territories on the planet. The basaltic magma streams that happened around 70-65 million years back, spread a range of more than 500,000 square kilometers, this is double the span of the entire of the United Kingdom. In parts, the basalt is more than 2 kilometers profound. Plate developments and other tectonic variables have separated the magma stores, some researcher appraise that the volcanic action toward the end of the Cretaceous sufficiently kept magma to cover 1,500,000 square kilometers - this would have secured half of India.