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 …

Is the track of the Yellowstone hotspot driven by a deep mantle plume?—Review of volcanism, faulting, and uplift in light of new data

KL Pierce, LA Morgan - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Geophysical imaging of a tilted mantle plume extending at least 500 km beneath the
Yellowstone caldera provides compelling support for a plume origin of the entire …

Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow

RB Smith, M Jordan, B Steinberger, CM Puskas… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Integration of geophysical and geological data show that the Yellowstone hotspot resulted
from a mantle plume interacting with the overriding North America plate, a process that has …

The Columbia River flood basalt province: Stratigraphy, areal extent, volume, and physical volcanology

SP Reidel, VE Camp, TL Tolan, BS Martin… - The Columbia River …, 2013 - books.google.com
ABSTRACT The middle Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group is the youngest and smallest
continental flood basalt province on Earth, covering over 210,000 km2 of mainly Oregon …

Origin of Columbia River flood basalt controlled by propagating rupture of the Farallon slab

L Liu, DR Stegman - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The origin of the Steens–Columbia River (SCR) flood basalts, which is presumed to be the
onset of Yellowstone volcanism, has remained controversial, with the proposed conceptual …

Seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle imaged with adjoint tomography

AJ Lloyd, DA Wiens, H Zhu, J Tromp… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The upper mantle and transition zone beneath Antarctica and the surrounding oceans are
among the poorest‐imaged regions of the Earth's interior. Over the last 15 years, several …

[HTML][HTML] Geophysical analysis of the Alpha–Mendeleev ridge complex: characterization of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province

GN Oakey, RW Saltus - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Alpha–Mendeleev ridge complex is a first-order physiographic and geological
feature of the Arctic Amerasia Basin. High amplitude “chaotic” magnetic anomalies (the High …

Resolving the crustal composition paradox by 3.8 billion years of slab failure magmatism and collisional recycling of continental crust

RS Hildebrand, JB Whalen, SA Bowring - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
In the standard paradigm, continental crust is formed mainly by arc magmatism, but because
the compositions of magma rising from the mantle are basaltic and continental crust is …

Eruption chronology of the Columbia River Basalt Group

TL Barry, SP Kelley, SP Reidel, VE Camp… - The Columbia River …, 2013 - books.google.com
ABSTRACT The Columbia River flood basalt province, United States, is likely the most
wellstudied, radiometrically well-dated large igneous province on Earth. Compared with …

Slab fragmentation, edge flow and the origin of the Yellowstone hotspot track

DE James, MJ Fouch, RW Carlson, JB Roth - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Snake River Plain/Yellowstone (SRP/Y) volcanic province is widely considered a
classic example of a plume generated continental hotspot. Here we present new S-wave …