Continental Flood Basalts

The Columbia River Basalt.- Flood Basalt Volcanism in the Northwestern United States.- The Ethiopian Flood Basalt Province.- The North Atlantic Tertiary Province.- Deccan Traps.- Continental Flood Volcanism From the Paran¿asin (Brazil).- The Karoo Province.- Traps of the Siberian Platform.- Cenozoic Basaltic Rocks in Eastern China.- Continental Flood Basalts and MORB: A Brief Discussion of Similarities and Differences in their Petrogenesis.

List of contents

The Columbia River Basalt.- Flood Basalt Volcanism in the Northwestern United States.- The Ethiopian Flood Basalt Province.- The North Atlantic Tertiary Province.- Deccan Traps.- Continental Flood Volcanism From the Paraná Basin (Brazil).- The Karoo Province.- Traps of the Siberian Platform.- Cenozoic Basaltic Rocks in Eastern China.- Continental Flood Basalts and MORB: A Brief Discussion of Similarities and Differences in their Petrogenesis.

About the author

J.D. MACDOUGALL (San Diego, California) is a professor of earth science at the Scripps Oceanographic Institute of the University of California, San Diego, the premier center for earth science research in the U.S. His work has appeared in Scientific American and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Product details

• Assisted by: D Macdougall (Editor), J D Macdougall (Editor), J. D. Macdougall (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048184583
• ISBN: 978-90-481-8458-3
• No. of pages: 341
• Weight: 558 g
• Illustrations: VII, 341 p.
• Series: Petrology and Structural Geology; Petrology and Structural Geology
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology