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Large Igneous Provinces
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Coffin, MF, Large Igneous Provinces, Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 140-143. ISBN 9780309219013 (2011) [Other Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Large igneous provinces (LIPs)—oceanic plateaus, volcanic
rifted margins, and continental flood basalts—result from
fundamental processes in Earth’s interior and have been implicated
as a cause of major worldwide environmental changes.
Although the plate tectonics paradigm successfully explains
volcanic activity on Earth’s surface associated with seafloor
spreading and plate subduction, it does not elucidate the massive
"hotspot" volcanism that produces LIPs, which dominates
the record of volcanism on all other terrestrial planets and
satellites in our solar system and the cause of which is debated
vigorously. Temporal correlations between LIP emplacements
and environmental phenomena such as mass extinctions and
oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) are well documented, yet the
underlying mechanisms causing these global catastrophes are
only beginning to be grasped. Scientific ocean drilling has
played a central and critical role in illuminating solid Earth
processes causing LIPs and in comprehending the effects of
LIP formation on Earth’s environment.
Item Details
Item Type: | Other Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | large igneous provinces |
Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
Research Group: | Geology |
Research Field: | Marine geoscience |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences |
UTAS Author: | Coffin, MF (Professor Mike Coffin) |
ID Code: | 116400 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (LE0882854) |
Deposited By: | Oceans and Cryosphere |
Deposited On: | 2017-05-09 |
Last Modified: | 2017-05-10 |
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