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Question 1

What are the DECCAN TRAPS?

Answer 1

One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the world.

Question 1

What does CLIMATE VARIATION mean?

Answer 1

Variations in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Question 2

Where did the DECCAN TRAPS occur?

Answer 2

West-Central India

Question 3

What was the “IMPACT” of the DECCAN TRAPS?

Answer 3

-The gases may have changed the global climate.

-Role in the extinction of the dinosaurs

Question 4

What are The SIBERIAN TRAP?

Answer 4

A massive flood basalt plain (covering approx 2 million km2.

-It’s formation killed MORE THAN 90% of all LIFE on Earth.

Question 5

Where did SIBERIAN TRAPS occur?

Answer 5

Centre of Russia, Siberia

Question 6

IMPACT of the SIBERIAN TRAPS:

Answer 6

-Scientists believe that just one year of spewing Siberian lava could have put 1.5 MILLION Tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere.

-They are the prime suspect for the mass extinction that ended the PALEOZIC ERA.