Volcanoes also wiped out the dinosaurs! – Europe1

Europe 1 MT with AFP Published at 19:05, 2 October 2015 , Modified at 7:19 p.m. , October 2, 2015

Volcanoes too, have wiped out the dinosaurs © AFP

By MT with AFP

The fall of a meteorite 180 km in diameter there are 66 million years ago would not have caused alone dinosaur extinction: consecutive major volcanic eruptions have this impact there especially participated, according to an article of American geologists published in the journal “Science”.

These analyzes about volcanoes basaltic plateaus of Deccan, India, indicate a doubling of eruptions in the 50,000 years since the impact of the asteroid. Now this would be precisely these lava flows, covering the planet of dust and toxic fumes, which would have altered the Earth’s climate, and already before the fall of the star. Scientists and consider the effects of the shock of the meteorite “negligible” in the extinction of animals and plants in the late Cretaceous period, contrary to the conclusions of the majority of paleontologists for 35 years.