[HTML][HTML] On the ages of flood basalt events

VE Courtillot, PR Renne - Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 2003 - Elsevier
We review available data constraining the extent, volume, age and duration of all major
Phanerozoic continental flood basalts (CFB or traps) and oceanic plateaus (OP), together …

An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces

Q Jiang, F Jourdan, HKH Olierook, RE Merle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are the products of exceptional magmatic events that played
important roles in tectonic plate reorganizations, environmental crises, energy resource …

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, MP Eddy, KM Samperton, CB Keller… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Temporal correlation between some continental flood basalt eruptions and mass extinctions
has been proposed to indicate causality, with eruptive volatile release driving environmental …

The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

CJ Sprain, PR Renne, L Vanderkluysen, K Pande… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Late Cretaceous records of environmental change suggest that Deccan Traps (DT)
volcanism contributed to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) ecosystem crisis …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact

PR Renne, CJ Sprain, MA Richards, S Self… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Bolide impact and flood volcanism compete as leading candidates for the cause of terminal-
Cretaceous mass extinctions. High-precision 40Ar/39Ar data indicate that these two …

40K–40Ar dating of the Main Deccan large igneous province: Further evidence of KTB age and short duration

AL Chenet, X Quidelleur, F Fluteau, V Courtillot… - Earth and Planetary …, 2007 - Elsevier
Most mass extinctions coincide in time with outpourings of continental flood basalts (CFB).
Some 20 years ago, it was shown [Courtillot, V., Besse, J., Vandamme, D., Montigny, R …

Determination of rapid Deccan eruptions across the Cretaceous‐Tertiary boundary using paleomagnetic secular variation: 2. Constraints from analysis of eight new …

AL Chenet, V Courtillot, F Fluteau… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The present paper completes a restudy of the main lava pile in the Deccan flood basalt
province (trap) of India. Chenet et al.(2008) reported results from the upper third, and this …

Determination of rapid Deccan eruptions across the Cretaceous‐Tertiary boundary using paleomagnetic secular variation: Results from a 1200‐m‐thick section in the …

AL Chenet, F Fluteau, V Courtillot… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Flow‐by‐flow reanalysis of paleomagnetic directions in two sections of the Mahabaleshwar
escarpment, coupled with analysis of intertrappean alteration levels shows that volcanism …

Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: Southern Red Sea, Ethiopia

E Wolfenden, C Ebinger, G Yirgu… - Geological …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The process of strain localization as rifting proceeds to continental breakup is readily
observed along the Oligocene-Recent southern Red Sea rift, yet much of the Red Sea …