[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the Shiva reference.

Shiva: Another K-T impact?

Diagram of Shiva impact area.
Credit: Sankar Chatterjee

[gleeaikin]

Shiva impact area.

I was very interested to see how the impact area overlaps the Deccan Traps. For those who don't know the DTs are more than 300 mils square and 9,000 feet thick. Given this location it would appear the meteor cracked the earth and allowed the magma to rise up. From written descriptions I had thought the Shiva crater was all off shore.

Now this brings up another speculation. We know that the great Permian extinction (death to 95% of all life forms), occurred around the same time as formation of the Siberian Traps, which I think were about the area of the United States. Perhaps a great meteor, much larger even than the others we know about plunged into Siberia, and is now completely covered by this monsterous outpouring of lava.

What do you think?