Early Cretaceous life and the environment were strongly influenced by the accelerated
break up of Pangaea, which was associated with the formation of a multitude of rift basins …

Basalt geochemistry can be used as a diagnostic indicator for determining the tectonic
setting of origin, because specific plate tectonic settings often impart distinctive geochemical …

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 …

Picritic lava flows near Lijiang in the late Permian Emeishan flood basalt province are
associated with augite-phyric basalt, aphyric basalt, and basaltic pyroclastic units. The …

Abstract The Early Cretaceous Ontong Java Plateau was emplaced at almost the same time
as marine biotic changes that culminated in oceanic anoxic event 1 (OAE1a). A causative …

Oceanic plateaus are mafic igneous provinces commonly thought to derive from ascending
mantle plumes. By far the largest, the Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) was emplaced ca. 120 Ma …

The Earth's lithosphere can focus basaltic magmatism along pre-existing weakness zones or
discontinuities. However, apart from the influence on the geochemistry of magmas emplaced …

The submarine volcanic emplacement of the Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) is the suggested
cause of Ocean Anoxic Event 1a (OAE 1a). However, no precise timing and duration exists …

The mantle sources of Tethyan basalts and gabbros from Iran, Tibet, the eastern Himalayas,
the seafloor off Australia, and possibly Albania were isotopically similar to those of present …

Abstract The Early Cretaceous Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) represents by far the largest
igneous event on Earth in the last 200 Ma and yet, despite its size, the OJP's basaltic crust …