Hot material rising from the mantle flooded portions of India with a vast amount of lava, creating a plateau known as the Deccan Traps.

It has been hypothesized that either the crater or the Deccan Traps associated with the area is the reason for the high level of oil and natural gas reserves in the region.

Chatterjee argues that the low angle of an impact combined with boundary fault lines and unstable rock led to this unusual formation.

[6] An article published in Science 2013 by Paul R. Renne at the University of California at Berkeley suggests that the Chicxulub crater is in fact within the time frame of when the mass extinction occurred.

"[8] American geologist Gerta Keller stated in 2007, "We have worked extensively throughout India and investigated a number of the localities where Sankar Chatterjee claims to have evidence of a large impact he calls Shiva crater...