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The causes and impacts of Deccan volcanism at the end-Cretaceous

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Ben Black

Email: bblack@ccny.cuny.edu

Research Description

Ben is an assistant professor at the City University of New York whose research focuses on how volcanoes can impact Earth's climate and biota. His research group is hunting for rare glass inclusions in Deccan Traps crystals that preserve snapshots of the Deccan magmas and the gases they released. This information will then be used as an input to global climate model simulations of the K-Pg world.

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  • Hunting the giant plagioclase basalts: A report from the Deccan province
  • The Koyna Cores
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Funding for this project was provided by the
National Science Foundation Award ID EAR-1615203.

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