Large Igneous Provinces -

Large Igneous Provinces

Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism
Buch | Hardcover
448 Seiten
1997
American Geophysical Union (Verlag)
978-0-87590-082-7 (ISBN)
78,50 inkl. MwSt
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 100.

Continental flood basalts, volcanic passive margins, and oceanic plateaus represent the largest known volcanic episodes on our planet, yet they are not easily explained by plate tectonics. Indeed, some are likely to record periods when the outward transfer of material and energy from the Earth's interior operated in a significantly different mode than at present. In recent years, interest in large-scale mafic magmatism has surged as high-precision geochronological, detailed geochemical, and increasingly sophisticated geophysical data have become available for many provinces. However, the sheer amount of recent material, often in the form of detailed collaborative research projects, can overwhelm newcomers to the field and experts alike as the literature continues to grow dramatically. The need for an up-to-date review volume on a sizable subset of the major continental and oceanic flood basalt provinces, termed large igneous provinces, was recognized by the Commission on Large-Volume Basaltic Provinces (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior), and the co-editors were charged with organizing and implementing such a volume. We hope that this volume will be valuable to researchers and graduate students worldwide, particularly to petrologists, geochemists, geochronologists, geodynamicists, and plate-tectonics specialists; it may also interest planetologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists.

John J. Mahoney is the editor of Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism, published by Wiley. Millard F. Coffin is the editor of Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism, published by Wiley.

Preface
John J. Mahoney and Millard F. Coffin  ix

The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province: Current Status
Peter R. Hooper  1

Evolution of the Red Sea Volcanic Margin, Western Yemen
Martin Menzies, Joel Baker, Gilles Chazot, and Mohamed Al'Kadasi  29

The North Atlantic Igneous Province
A. D. Saunders, J. G. Fitton, A. C. Kerr, M. J. Norry, and R. W. Kent  45

Cretaceous Basaltsin Madagascar and the Transition Between Plume and Continental Lithosphere Mantle Sources
Michael Storey, John J. Mahoney, and Andrew D. Saunders 95

The Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous Igneous Province:
The Internal Anatomy of an Oceanic Plateau
Andrew C . Kerr, John Tarney, Giselle F. Marriner, Alvaro Nivia, and Andrew D. Saunders  123

Rajmahal Basalts, Eastern India: Mantle Sources and Melt Distribution at a Volcanic Rifted Margin
W. Kent, A.D. Saunders, P. D. Kempton, and N. C. Ghose  145

The Ontong Java Plateau
Ciive R. Neal, John J. Mahoney, Loren W. Kroenke, Robert A. Duncan, and Michael G. Petterson  18

The Parana-Etendeka Province
David W. Peate  217

Stratigraphy and Age o f Karoo Basalts of Lesotho and Implications for
Correlations Within the Karoo Igneous Province
J. S. Marsh, P . R. Hooper, J. Rehacek, R. A. Duncan, and A. R. Duncan  247

SiberianT raps
Mukul Sharma  273

Giant Radiating Dyke Swarms:
Their Use in Identifying Pre-Mesozoic Large Igneous Provinces and Mantle Plumes
Richard E. Ernst and Kenneth L. Buchan  297

Plume/Lithospheret Ineraction in the Generation of Continental and Oceanic Flood Basalts:
Chemical and Isotopic Constraints
John C. Lassitera nd Donald J. DePaolo  335

Flood Basalts and Magmatic Ni, Cu, and PGE Sulphide Mineralization:
Comparative Geochemistry  of the Noril'sk (Siberian Traps) and West Greenland Sequences
Peer C . Lightfoot and Chris J. Hawkesworth  357

Emplacement  of Continental Flood B asalt Lava Flows
Stephen Self, Thorvaldur Thordarsna, and Laszlo Keszthelyi 381

Large Igneous Provinces: A Planetary Perspective
James W. Head III and Millard F. Coffin  411

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.1.1997
Reihe/Serie Geophysical Monograph Series
Sprache englisch
Maße 223 x 278 mm
Gewicht 1301 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geophysik
ISBN-10 0-87590-082-8 / 0875900828
ISBN-13 978-0-87590-082-7 / 9780875900827
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