Did dinosaur-killing asteroid trigger largest lava flows on Earth?

The asteroid that slammed into the ocean off Mexico 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs probably rang the Earth like a bell, triggering volcanic eruptions around the globe, according to a multi-disciplinary team of scientists. If you try to explain why the largest impact we know of in the last billion years happened within 100,000 years of these massive lava flows at Deccan.. the chances of that occurring at random are minuscule - Mark Richards, University of California Berkeley The team of researchers, which included Dr Sally Gibson from Cambridge University's Department of Earth Sciences , argue that the impact may have triggered most of the immense eruptions of lava in India known as the Deccan Traps. In a paper published in The Geological Society of America Bulletin they claim this would explain the "uncomfortably close" coincidence between the Deccan Traps eruptions and the impact, which has always cast doubt on the theory that the asteroid was the sole cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. The Deccan Traps are a vast accumulation of igneous rock, and one of the largest volcanic features on Earth, located on the Deccan Plateau in India. Formed by huge lava flows, they cover an area of approximately 500,000km² and stretch across the Indian subcontinent from Mumbai to Kolkata. "If you try to explain why the largest impact we know of in the last billion years happened within 100,000 years of these massive lava flows at Deccan..