Talk:Réunion hotspot

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Removed "So the emerged island represent 1/32 of the total mountain from the ocean floor 4000 m under the sea level, and even 1/100 with the part sunk." because it seems to make no sense...

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A thought about link between Chicxulub crater of 65 mya, and Reunion Hotspot.
Is there a possibility these are related events, and the impact was of a scale so it caused related events in the indian ocean. (the decan trapps) I would like to toss this thought in the air and see if it makes its own helium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.246.208 (talk) 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

If the Chicxulub impact coincided with activity in the Indian Ocean then yes it is possible that they are related. Hwever, there is a problem. The Réunion hotspot was already erupting the Deccan Traps as the earliest known lavas pre-date the impact. The date range for the traps is about 8 million years ranging from 68 to 60 million years ago, and the Chicxulub impact has been dated at about 65 million years - approximately half way through the eruptive cycle of the Deccan Traps. There is also evidence that the Cretaceous extinction was under way and that the Chixulub impact only added to an over loaded environment and may therefore have created the circumstances that caused the final extinctions.The Geologist (talk) 15:02, 23 January 2013 (UTC)