The life cycle of large igneous provinces

BA Black, L Karlstrom, TA Mather - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely voluminous magmatic systems known as large igneous provinces (LIPs)
punctuate Earth's history, and the gases they release plausibly link large-scale geodynamic …

Structure of volcano plumbing systems: A review of multi-parametric effects

A Tibaldi - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Magma is transported and stored in the crust mostly through networks of planar structures
(intrusive sheets), ranging from vertical dykes to inclined sheets and horizontal sills, and …

Lateral magma flow in mafic sill complexes

C Magee, JD Muirhead, A Karvelas… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The structure of upper crustal magma plumbing systems controls the distribution of
volcanism and influences tectonic processes. However, delineating the structure and …

[HTML][HTML] A new plumbing system framework for mantle plume-related continental Large Igneous Provinces and their mafic-ultramafic intrusions

RE Ernst, DA Liikane, SM Jowitt, KL Buchan… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2019 - Elsevier
The magmatic components of continental Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) include flood
basalts and their plumbing system of giant mafic dyke swarms (radiating, linear, and the …

Seismic interpretation of sill complexes in sedimentary basins: implications for the sub-sill imaging problem

CH Eide, N Schofield, I Lecomte… - Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Application of 3D seismic reflection data to igneous systems in sedimentary basins has led
to a revolution in the understanding of mafic sill complexes. However, there is considerable …

Simultaneous rift-scale inflation of a deep crustal sill network in Afar, East Africa

A La Rosa, C Pagli, H Wang, F Sigmundsson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Decades of studies at divergent plate margins have revealed networks of magmatic sills at
the crust-mantle boundary. However, a lack of direct observations of deep magma motion …

Diachronous sub‐volcanic intrusion along deep‐water margins: Insights from the Irish Rockall Basin

C Magee, CAL Jackson, N Schofield - Basin Research, 2014 - earthdoc.org
The movement of magma in sedimentary basins often occurs through an extensive and
interconnected complex of sills. Field‐, modelling‐, and seismic reflection‐based studies …

Storage and transport of magma in the layered crust—Formation of sills and related flat-lying intrusions

O Galland, HS Bertelsen, CH Eide, F Guldstrand… - Volcanic and igneous …, 2018 - Elsevier
Even though dykes are the main upward magma pathways through the Earth's crust, the last
two decades of research showed that significant parts of volcano plumbing systems consist …

A giant circumferential dyke swarm associated with the High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP)

KL Buchan, RE Ernst - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we identify a giant circumferential mafic dyke swarm associated with the 135–
75 Ma High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP). Previously, a HALIP giant radiating …

Varying styles of magmatic strain accommodation across the E ast A frican R ift

JD Muirhead, SA Kattenhorn… - Geochemistry …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of active dike intrusions provide present day snapshots of the magmatic
contribution to continental rifting. However, unravelling the contributions of upper crustal …