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• Chilcotin Plateau Basalts — The Chilcotin Plateau Basalts, also called the Chilcotin Group, is a medium sized large igneous province that forms a volcanic plateau running parallel with the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in south central British Columbia, Canada.During Late… …   Wikipedia

• Natkusiak flood basalts — The Natkusiak flood basalts are a sequence of Neoproterozoic continental flood basalts of the Franklin Large Igneous Province on Victoria Island, Canada. The flood basalts were erupted about 720 million years ago after uplift began three to… …   Wikipedia

• Cheakamus Valley basalts — Brandywine Falls in Brandywine Falls Provincial Park. At least three lava flows are clearly visible in the rugged cliffs. The Cheakamus Valley basalts are a sequence of basaltic lava flows at the Cheakamus River in southwestern British Columbia,… …   Wikipedia

• Miles Canyon Basalts — Coordinates: 60°39′41.41″N 135°1′42.64″W / 60.6615028°N 135.0285111°W / 60.6615028; 135.0285111 The Miles Canyon Basalts is a clu …   Wikipedia

• Basalt — For the World War II raid, see Operation Basalt. For the cities, see Basalt, Colorado and Basalt, Idaho. Basalt Igneous Rock Composition …   Wikipedia

• Lunar mare — The lunar maria  /ˈm …   Wikipedia

• Mantle plume — A superplume generated by cooling processes in the mantle.[1] A mantle plume is a hypothetical thermal diapir of abnormally hot rock that nucleates at the core mantle boundary and rises through the Earth s mantle. Such plumes were invoked in 1971 …   Wikipedia

• Flood basalt — A flood basalt or trap basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava. Flood basalts have occurred on continental scales (large igneous provinces) in …   Wikipedia

• igneous rock — Any of various crystalline or glassy, noncrystalline rocks formed by the cooling and solidification of molten earth material (magma). Igneous rocks comprise one of the three principal classes of rocks, the others being metamorphic and sedimentary …   Universalium

• Large igneous province — Only a few of the largest Large Igneous Provinces are indicated (by the dark purple areas) on this geological map, which depicts crustal geologic provinces as seen in seismic refraction data. A Large Igneous Province (LIP) is an extremely large… …   Wikipedia

• basalt — basaltic, basaltine /beuh sawl tin, tuyn/, adj. /beuh sawlt , bas awlt, bay sawlt/, n. the dark, dense igneous rock of a lava flow or minor intrusion, composed essentially of labradorite and pyroxene and often displaying a columnar structure.… …   Universalium