How might the Chicxulub impact have affected the Deccan eruptions?
The most recent efforts to date these eruptions have clearly shown that the Deccan Traps began spewing lava before the meteorite impact and the mass extinction occurred. But the Berkeley-led study suggested that the Chicxulub impact triggered a rapid increase in their eruption rate.
Whoa.... in the exact opposite spots of the globe?
No. Exact opposite of all but a sliver of US Wesr Coast is in the Indian Ocean.
Forget the science, enjoy the joke.