Large igneous provinces - Ernst, Richard E. (New York Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Machine generated contents note -- Preface -- 1. Introduction, definition, and general characteristics-- 2. Essential criteria: distinguishing LIP from non-LIP events -- 3. Continental flood basalts and volcanic rifted margins -- 4. Oceanic LIPs: oceanic plateaus and ocean basin flood basalts and their remnants through time -- 5. Plumbing system of LIPs -- 6. Archean LIPs -- 7. Planetary LIPs -- 8. Silicic (Felsic) LIPs -- 9. Links with carbonatites, kimberlites, and lamprophyres/lamproites -- 10. Geochemistry of LIPs -- 11. LIPs and topographic changes -- 12. LIPs and rifting -- 13. LIPs and links with contractional structures -- 14. LIPs and environmental catastrophes -- 15. Assessing the origin of LIPs -- 16. LIPs and implications for mineral, hydrocarbon and water resources -- References -- Index.
First paperback edition 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-640) and index.
Keywords: Igneous rocks; Magmatism; Earth (Planet) -- Mantle; Geodynamics