a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forminga plateau
fissure eruption
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flood basalt
They are comparable to some large continental flood basalt provinces, and they number between 17 and 41.
Ka-Kheng Tan, Rex B. Thorpe, Zhidan Zhao 2011, 'On predicting mantle mushroom plumes', Geoscience Frontiershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111000181. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Flood basalt volcanism involves large volumes of magma emplaced into the crust and surface environment on geologically short timescales.
Leif Karlstrom, Kendra E. Murray, Peter W. Reiners 2019, 'Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Inversion of Low-Temperature Thermochronology AroundTwo 8 − 10 m Wide Columbia River Flood Basalt Dikes', Frontiers in Earth Sciencehttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2019.00090/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A successful answer to these questions could greatly increase the possibility of discovering new deposits in flood basalt provinces elsewhere.
Nadezhda A. Krivolutskaya, Anton V. Latyshev, Alexander S. Dolgal, Bronislav I.Gongalsky, Elena M. Makarieva, Alexander A. Makariev, Natalia M. Svirskaya, YanaV. Bychkova, Anton I. Yakushev, Alexey M. Asavin 2019, 'Unique PGE–Cu–Ni Noril'sk Deposits, Siberian Trap Province: Magmatic and TectonicFactors in Their Origin', Mineralshttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/1/66. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)