Review of Schoene et al., An evaluation of Deccan Traps eruption rates using geochronologic data

Contrasts between the interpretations of Schoene et al. (2019) and Sprain et al. (2019) have garnered attention, and an objective appraisal of the reasons for these contrasts would be a useful contribution to a fairly large community.Unfortunately, this manuscript does not really accomplish that-in fact, it comes across as mainly a comment on Sprain et al. ( 2019) with essentially no acknowledgement of the limitations of Schoene et al. (2019).Consequently, my review is to some extent a review of Schoene et al. (2019), because many factors that must be considered in an objective comparison of these two papers have not been addressed.