Volcanic eruptions in India's Deccan Traps had long-lasting, profound climatic & ecological impacts: study
R Sinduja
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According to a study, volcanic eruptions in India's Deccan Traps had climatic and ecological impacts that were profound, long-lasting and global. Now a geochemical analysis of fossil marine mollusk shells gives insights into both climate response and environmental mercury contamination at the time of Deccan Traps volcanism. Evidence suggests that it had global, long-lasting, profound climatic & ecological impacts.