Field Work in India’s Deccan Traps

From Geosciences The Department of Geosciences, Princeton University July 8th, 2019

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In December 2013 a research team from the Department of Geosciences traveled to central India in order to address one of the most captivating questions in Earth history: what was the cause of the dinosaur-eradicating Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction ca. 65 million years ago? The group included Profs. Blair Schoene and Gerta Keller; Kyle Samperton, a PhD student working in Schoene’s Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer Laboratory; Mike Eddy ’11, now a PhD student in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT; Prof. Thierry Adatte of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland); Prof. Syed Khadri of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University (India); and Preston Kemeny ’15, who is conducting his Spring Junior Project under the supervision of Keller, Schoene, and Adatte.

"Princeton Geochronologists, Paleontologist Investigate Interplay of Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions with Field Work in India’s Deccan Traps" https://geosciences.princeton.edu/news/princeton-geochronologists-paleontologist-investigate-interplay-volcanism-impacts-and-mass

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Date: January 24th, 2014
Department: Geosciences
Location: Deccan Traps, India
Appears In: Geosciences Geology

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