Caption This is a map showing the extent of the Deccan Traps volcanic region in India, which dates from 64-67 million years ago. The rectangle shows the region near Mumbai from which the Berkeley ...

Once three-times larger than France, the Deccan Traps were a primeval volcanic range in western India that pumped Earth's atmosphere full of climate-altering carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide at ...

Stretching north to south along the western edge of the Deccan plateau it is also called the ‘Great Escarpment of India’ and starts from the border of Gujarat and ends at Kanyakumari.