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The Deccan Traps began forming 66.25 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.

The bulk of the volcanic eruption occurred at the Western Ghats (near Mumbai) some 66 million years ago.

The Deccan Traps are one of the largest volcanic provinces in the world.

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.

The Deccan Traps in India – between 17°–24° North and 73°–74° East – are a place where you can find layer upon layer of solidified rock.

Deccan Trap is a thick sequence (3200 metres) of late cretaceous basaltic lava flows that cover about 500000 sq. km. of peninsular India.

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