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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2008-07-01
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Series: | Scientific Drilling |
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Online Access: | http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd6_08.pdf#page=4 |