Investigating Large Igneous Province Formation and Associated Paleoenvironmental Events: A White Paper for Scientific Drilling

Earth’s history has been punctuated over at least the last 3.5 billion years by massive volcanism on a scale unknown in the recent geological past. Largely unknown mechanical and dynamic processes, with unclear relationships to seafloor spreading and subduction, generated voluminous, predominately m...

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Main Authors: Michael R. Rampino, Nao Ohkouchi, Stephanie P. Ingle, J. Godfrey Fitton, Cinzia Farnetani, Elisabetta Erba, Olav Eldholm, Robert A. Duncan, Nicholas T. Arndt, Millard F. Coffin, Clive R. Neal, Marc K. Reichow, Stephen Self, Yoshiyuki Tatsumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2008-07-01
Series:Scientific Drilling
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Online Access:http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd6_08.pdf#page=4