[HTML][HTML] Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth–A review and …

Y Niu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Basalts and basaltic rocks are the most abundant igneous rocks on the earth and their
petrologic and geochemical studies have formed our knowledge base on the thermal …

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 …

Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian–Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China

Y Xu, SL Chung, B Jahn, G Wu - Lithos, 2001 - Elsevier
The Emeishan flood basalt is a large igneous province erupted during the Permian–Triassic
period in southwestern China. Based on petrographic, major and trace element, and Sr–Nd …

The Bushveld Complex was emplaced and cooled in less than one million years–results of zirconology, and geotectonic implications

A Zeh, M Ovtcharova, AH Wilson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rustenburg Layered Suite (RLS) of the Bushveld Complex (BC) represents
Earth's oldest large igneous province (> 370 000 km 3), and contains the world's largest …

On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup

V Courtillot, C Jaupart, I Manighetti… - Earth and Planetary …, 1999 - Elsevier
Temporal coincidence between continental flood basalts and breakup has been noted for
almost three decades. Eight major continental flood basalts have been produced over the …

The Early Permian Tarim Large Igneous Province: main characteristics and a plume incubation model

YG Xu, X Wei, ZY Luo, HQ Liu, J Cao - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Permian magmatism in Tarim, NW China comprises diamondiferous
kimberlites, lamprophyres, flood basalts, Fe–Ti oxide ore-bearing layered mafic–ultramafic …

The parana-etendeka province

DW Peate - Geophysical Monograph-American Geophysical …, 1997 - books.google.com
Stratigraphic data and 40 Ar-39Ar ages for the Early Cretaceous Paraná-Etendeka flood
basalts indicate that the main magmatic episode lasted for several my (129–134 Ma) and …

Large igneous provinces and silicic large igneous provinces: Progress in our understanding over the last 25 years

SE Bryan, L Ferrari - GSA Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Large igneous provinces are exceptional intraplate igneous events throughout Earth's
history. Their significance and potential global impact are related to the total volume of …

Sedimentary evidence for a rapid, kilometer-scale crustal doming prior to the eruption of the Emeishan flood basalts

B He, YG Xu, SL Chung, L **ao, Y Wang - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2003 - Elsevier
Biostratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations in 67 sections have been carried out for
the Middle Permian Maokou Formation that immediately underlies the Emeishan flood …

Geophysical evidence for an active mantle plume underneath Elysium Planitia on Mars

A Broquet, JC Andrews-Hanna - Nature Astronomy, 2023 - nature.com
Although the majority of volcanic and tectonic activity on Mars occurred during the first 1.5
billion years of its geologic history, recent volcanism, tectonism and active seismicity in …