The largest volcanic eruptions on Earth

SE Bryan, IU Peate, DW Peate, S Self, DA Jerram… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are sites of the most frequently recurring, largest volume
basaltic and silicic eruptions in Earth history. These large-volume (> 1000km3 dense rock …

The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), India: a review: Part 1: Areal extent and distribution, compositional diversity, flow types and sequences, stratigraphic …

P Krishnamurthy - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), covering presently an area of 0.5 million km
2, and estimated to be 2–3 times larger during the Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene, is one of …

Stratigraphy, structure and volcanology of the SE Deccan continental flood basalt province: implications for eruptive extent and volumes

AE Jay, M Widdowson - Journal of the Geological Society, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
The Deccan Volcanic Province is one of the world's largest continental flood basalt
provinces, and derives additional importance because its eruptions (64–67 Ma) straddle the …

Picrites from the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, SW China: a compositional continuum in primitive magmas and their respective mantle sources

VS Kamenetsky, SL Chung, MB Kamenetsky… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Flood basalts are one of the remaining enigmas in global mantle petrology. They come in
enormous quantities of up to 106 km3 of mantle-derived melt, and they erupt in rather short …

The central atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) in Morocco

A Marzoli, H Bertrand, N Youbi, S Callegaro… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) is a large igneous province (LIP)
composed of basic dykes, sills, layered intrusions and lava flows emplaced before Pangea …

Continental flood basalts and mantle plumes: a case study of the Northern Ethiopian Plateau

L Beccaluva, G Bianchini, C Natali… - Journal of Petrology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
New geochemical data integrated in a petrogenetic model indicate that the∼ 30 Ma
Northern Ethiopian continental flood basalts (CFBs) preserve a record of magmas generated …

[图书][B] Great warm deserts of the world: landscapes and evolution

A Goudie - 2002 - books.google.com
This is the first-ever regional study of the geomorphology of the world's deserts,
demonstrating why different deserts have special landscape features and land-forming …

Geochemistry of flood basalts of the Toranmal section, northern Deccan Traps, India: implications for regional Deccan stratigraphy

JJ Mahoney, HC Sheth, D Chandrasekharam… - Journal of …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Tholeiitic lavas forming a flood basalt sequence of 870 m thickness at Toranmal in the
northern Deccan Traps have a large range in isotopic ratios [ε Nd (t)=+ 2· 1 to–15· 7,(87 …

Discriminating four tectonic settings: Five new geochemical diagrams for basic and ultrabasic volcanic rocks based on log—ratio transformation of major-element data

SP Verma, M Guevara, S Agrawal - Journal of Earth System Science, 2006 - Springer
We present five new discriminant function diagrams based on an extensive database
representative of basic and ultrabasic rocks from four tectonic settings of island arc …

Cretaceous volcanic rocks of the South Tethyan suture zone, Pakistan: implications for the Réunion hotspot and Deccan Traps

JJ Mahoney, RA Duncan, W Khan, E Gnos… - Earth and Planetary …, 2002 - Elsevier
The location, ages, and geochemical characteristics of marine volcanic rocks preserved in
the South Tethyan suture zone of Pakistan suggest that the Réunion hotspot was active off …