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The '''Deccan Traps''' is a [[large igneous province]] located in west-central [[India]] and is one of the largest [[volcanic]] features on [[Earth]]. It consists of multiple layers of solidified [[flood basalt]] that together are more than 2,000 m thick and
The Deccan Traps formed between 60 and 68 [[geologic timescale|million years ago]],[http://www.mantleplumes.org/Deccan.html][http://ksgeo.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~iwata/personal/Deccan-e.htm] at the end of the [[Cretaceous]] [[Geologic period|period]]. The gasses released in the process may have played a role in the [[extinction]] of the [[dinosaur]]s. Before it was reduced to its current size by [[erosion]] and [[continental drift]], it is estimated that the original area covered by the [[lava|lava flow]]s was as large as 1.5 million km². The volume of basalt is estimated to have been 512,000 km³.
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