Deccan Traps of the Western Ghats : aerial journey of a large African type rift valley landscape

A stunning aerial view of the Deccan Traps of the central plateau of India's Western Ghats hill range. Steep cuts in the hill clearly show the separation of one ridge line from the next one. The horizontal striations point to the layers of geological activity that characterize the Deccan region and the Deccan Traps. A river and dam cap off the perfect Ghats location.

Deccan Traps of the Western Ghats : aerial journey

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An aerial view of the Deccan traps of the Western Ghats. The Deccan Traps are one of the largest volcanic provinces in the world. It consists of more than 6,500 feet of flat-lying basalt lava flows and covers an area of nearly 200,000 square miles in west-central India. Estimates of the original area covered by the lava flows are as high as 600,000 square miles. The volume of basalt is estimated to be 12,275 cubic miles. The Deccan Traps are flood basalts similar to the Columbia River basalts of the northwestern United States. This photo shows a thick stack of basalt lava flows north of Mahabaleshwar. Volcanologists are also trying to understand how such great volumes of lava erupted. Early models proposed that lava flooded across large areas at extremely rapid rates. Recently proposed models suggested that at least some of the flows are emplaced at gradual rates, lasting months to years.

Source: volcano.oregonstate.edu

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