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| | Deccan Traps, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | It consists of more than 6,500 feet (>2,000 m) of flat-lying basalt lava flows and covers an area of nearly 200,000 square miles (500,000 square km) (roughly the size of the states of Washington and Oregon combined) in west-central India. |
 | | Beane, J.E., Turner, C.A., Hooper, P.R., and Subbarao, K.V., and Walsh, J.N., 1986, Stratigraphy, composition and form of the Deccan Basalts, western Ghats, India. |
 | | Krishnan, M.S., 1953, The structural and tectonic history of India: Mem. |
| volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/india/deccan.html (448 words) |
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