What are the odds, "the events" that created the rocks you see sprawling on Goan beaches, were also responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Undoubtedly, this is a pretty loaded question. All along, like many Goans, I assumed that the rocky beaches in Goa, were the result of millions of years of erosion. Well, that's just part of the story. After reading alternative theories, I have changed my "assumptions" ... While most Indians have come across the term Deccan Plateau in geography classes, not many, however, know much about its history. The so called Deccan Traps or the vocanic eruptions that created them, occured some 65 million years ago - about the same time the dinosaurs disappeared. The only theory that is leading the explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, is the chicxulub crater theory. According to the proponents of this theory, a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth, at chicxulub in Mexico about 65 million years ago, and that this event wiped out the dinosaurs. During my routine web crawl a few months ago, I came across a shocking but convincing altenative theory that the Indian Deccan Traps may have been equally responsible for the disappearance of the dinosaurs. And then I came across a web site run by an Australian, that says the rocky beaches found in Goa and elsewhere on the west coast of India, were the result of the Deccan volcanoes. If volcanoes created the Deccan Traps, the question becomes, where are the volcanoes now? Well, the explanation to that question is that, the then island, which we now call India, was splitting away from the African continental plate and moving north towards mainland Asia. As it pushed north, it passed over a Hot Spot in the Earth's crust, it punched holes into the moving Indian continental plate above, spewing the volcanic ash. The Hot Spot is now located under the Reunion Island in the Indian Occean. Please see the links below: http://www.volcanolive.com/deccan.html http://www.livescience.com/animals/071112-dino-volcanoes.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union_hotspot Does anybody have anything to add or dis-prove this theory? Jim F. New York. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Jim Fernandes wrote: > > Could someone take a look at Rajan's pictures and explain with a scientific > reason, > > how the rocks got to the beach down there? > > > > Jim F, > Those rocks have always been there. They were much larger 40 years ago. > The sea has washed away the soil from around the rocks and left bare the > harder > material. > Mervyn3.0
