Re: Bigass volcanism (was RE: Human bottlenecks and bird taxonomy (was: Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours...))

[Thomas de Wilde <jedimr_thomas@hotmail.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
> The Siberian Traps seem to have been produced by the largest SERIES of
> eruptions in Phanerozoic history, but it wasn't a single eruption.
Indeed,
> if they were produced by just one eruption, they wouldn't be called
"Traps"
> (Dutch for "steps"): the fact that you had flow after flow after flow with
> long periods (years, maybe centuries or more) in between events produces
the
> layered effect, which weathers out into steps.

no it's not a step in dutch is een stap
trap means stairs or a kick

Thomas