Shiva Crater

The Deccan Traps are located in the theorized center of the crater, lending support to the idea that the traps were created by the impact event.

The crater is believed to be 600 km long and 400 km wide.

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The Shiva Crater: Implications for Deccan Volcanism, India-seychelles Rifting, Dinosaur Extinction, and Petroleum Entrapment at the Kt Boundary by Chatterjee, Sankar; Guven, Necip; Yoshinobu, Aaaron; and Donofrio, Richard; Paper No. 60-8, 2003 Seattle Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America (November 2–5, 2003).

Deep Impact - Shiva: Another K-T Impact? by Leslie Mullen for Astrobiology Magazine (Nov. 2004).

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	craters of india

	astroblemes

	extinction events

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