If, however, the extension is spread over a very large area then these flood basalt events may not occur.

On land, they are very common at plate boundaries and in flood basalt provinces.

The maria on the Moon are additional, even more extensive, flood basalts.

The final stages of the Permian had two flood basalt events.

These are important factors on how flood basalts influenced paleoclimate.

Mantle plumes have been suggested as the source for flood basalts.

"Along this section the river has cut its way through the flood basalt plateaux.

This flood basalt sequence is related to the Franklin magmatic event.

He had a particular interest in flood basalts and was regarded as one of the leading experts in this area.

Climate change, flood basalt eruptions and an asteroid impact have all been blamed for this loss of life.

Could the Permian flood basalt eruptions have caused mass extinction?

However, due to a lack of data on the time required to produce flood basalts, the climatic impact is difficult to quantify.

Two kinds of basaltic floods basalts can be distinguished :

Fissure vents can cause large flood basalts and lava channels.

Another hypothesis builds on the flood basalt eruption theory.

These flood basalt lava flows were erupted during a single event that lasted less than five million years.

Formation of the Karoo-Ferrar flood basalts begins 183 million years ago.

This led to his developing a particular interest in flood basalts, upon which topic he in due course became a world expert.

The first documented eruption in 934 was the largest flood basalt in historic time.

However, the largest volumes of basalt on land correspond to continental flood basalts.

The rock formation is what's called a flood basalt, thought to be caused by a plume of hot mantle breaking through to the surface.

Flood basalts on the ocean floor produce oceanic plateaus.

The timing of flood basalts has corresponded with large-scale continental break-up.

The plateau is of volcanic origin, composed mostly of flood basalts.

Subaerial flood basalts can be of two kinds :