The origin, evolution, and environmental impact of oceanic large igneous provinces
By: edited by Clive R. Neal, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana [and three others]
Series: Special paper -- 511
Publisher: The Geological Society of America
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780813725116
Subjects: Petrology; Igneous rocks; Flood basalts; Magmatism; Volcanism
Description: "Gathers together papers focused on understanding oceanic large igneous provinces from their origin and evolution to environmental impacts. Research presented has made extensive use of dredge samples and cores collected by scientific ocean drilling. Samples from terrestrial sequences are also integrated into understanding global environmental consequences of oceanic LIPs"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hawaii and the Azores; title: Shatsky Rise; title: Ontong Java Plateau; title: Oceanic anoxic events and Cretaceous environmental perturbations.