Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism(Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 100. Continental flood basalts, volcanic passive margins, and oceanic plateaus represent the largest known volcanic episodes on our planet, yet they are not easily explained by plate tectonics. Indeed, some are likely to record periods when the outward transfer of material and energy from the Earth's interior operated in a significantly different mode than at present. In recent years, interest in large-scale mafic magmatism has surged as high-precision geochronological, detailed geochemical, and increasingly sophisticated geophysical data have become available for many provinces. However, the sheer amount of recent material, often in the form of detailed collaborative research projects, can overwhelm newcomers to the field and experts alike as the literature continues to grow dramatically. The need for an up-to-date review volume on a sizable subset of the major continental and oceanic flood basalt provinces, termed large igneous provinces, was recognized by the Commission on Large-Volume Basaltic Provinces (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior), and the co-editors were charged with organizing and implementing such a volume. We hope that this volume will be valuable to researchers and graduate students worldwide, particularly to petrologists, geochemists, geochronologists, geodynamicists, and plate-tectonics specialists; it may also interest planetologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists.

Table of Contents:
Preface John J. Mahoney and Millard F. Coffin  ix The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province: Current Status Peter R. Hooper  1 Evolution of the Red Sea Volcanic Margin, Western Yemen Martin Menzies, Joel Baker, Gilles Chazot, and Mohamed Al'Kadasi  29 The North Atlantic Igneous Province A. D. Saunders, J. G. Fitton, A. C. Kerr, M. J. Norry, and R. W. Kent  45 Cretaceous Basaltsin Madagascar and the Transition Between Plume and Continental Lithosphere Mantle Sources Michael Storey, John J. Mahoney, and Andrew D. Saunders 95 The Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous Igneous Province: The Internal Anatomy of an Oceanic Plateau Andrew C . Kerr, John Tarney, Giselle F. Marriner, Alvaro Nivia, and Andrew D. Saunders  123 Rajmahal Basalts, Eastern India: Mantle Sources and Melt Distribution at a Volcanic Rifted Margin W. Kent, A.D. Saunders, P. D. Kempton, and N. C. Ghose  145 The Ontong Java Plateau Ciive R. Neal, John J. Mahoney, Loren W. Kroenke, Robert A. Duncan, and Michael G. Petterson  18 The Parana-Etendeka Province David W. Peate  217 Stratigraphy and Age o f Karoo Basalts of Lesotho and Implications for Correlations Within the Karoo Igneous Province J. S. Marsh, P . R. Hooper, J. Rehacek, R. A. Duncan, and A. R. Duncan  247 SiberianT raps Mukul Sharma  273 Giant Radiating Dyke Swarms: Their Use in Identifying Pre-Mesozoic Large Igneous Provinces and Mantle Plumes Richard E. Ernst and Kenneth L. Buchan  297 Plume/Lithospheret Ineraction in the Generation of Continental and Oceanic Flood Basalts: Chemical and Isotopic Constraints John C. Lassitera nd Donald J. DePaolo  335 Flood Basalts and Magmatic Ni, Cu, and PGE Sulphide Mineralization: Comparative Geochemistry  of the Noril'sk (Siberian Traps) and West Greenland Sequences Peer C . Lightfoot and Chris J. Hawkesworth  357 Emplacement  of Continental Flood B asalt Lava Flows Stephen Self, Thorvaldur Thordarsna, and Laszlo Keszthelyi 381 Large Igneous Provinces: A Planetary Perspective James W. Head III and Millard F. Coffin  411

About the Author :
John J. Mahoney is the editor of Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism, published by Wiley. Millard F. Coffin is the editor of Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism, published by Wiley.