Sulfur and Chlorine in Late Cretaceous Deccan Magmas and Eruptive Gas Release

摘要

Large-volume pahoehoe lava flows erupted 67 to 65 million years ago, forming the Deccan Traps, India. The impact of these flood basalt eruptions on the global atmosphere and the coeval end-Cretaceous mass extinction has been uncertain. To assess the poten