Large Igneous Province of the month

2008

January 2008: The Chipman Dyke Swarm, Saskatchewan, Canada: Component of the 1.9 Ga Snowbird Large Igneous Province in the western Canadian Shield, Michael L. Williams and Rebecca M. Flowers

February 2008: Reconnaissance Ar-Ar dating of Proterozoic dolerite dykes and sills in Siberia and the southern Urals: Identification of possible new Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs), R.E. Ernst,  J. A. Hanes, V.N. Puchkov, A.V. Okrugin, D.A. Archibald

March 2008: Tracking the evolution of magmatic plumbing systems from temporal variations in crustal assimilation in the East Greenland flood basalt province. David W. Peate, Abigail K. Barker, Morten S. Riishuus, Rasmus Andreasen

April 2008: Petrology, geochemistry and paleomagnetism of earliest magmatic rocks of Deccan Volcanic Province, Kutch, North Western India, Dalim K Paul, Arijit Ray, Brindaban Das, Shiva K Patil and Sanjib K Biswas

May 2008: Early Paleozoic Large Igneous Province of the Central Asia Mobile Belt, A.E. Izokh, G.V. Polyakov, R.A. Shelepaev, V.V. Vrublevskii, V.V. Egorova,  Rudnev S.N.,  A.V. Lavrenchuk, E.V. Borodina, Т. Oyunchimeg

June 2008: Speculations on the Proterozoic Large Igneous Province (LIP) Record of India, Richard E. Ernst and Rajesh K. Srivastava


2007

January 2007: Eastern Paraguay: Post-Paleozoic Magmatism. Comin-Chiaramonti P., Gomes C. B., Ernesto M., Marzoli A. and Riccomini C.

February 2007: 2480 Ma mafic magmatism in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota: a new link connecting the Wyoming and Superior cratons. Peter S. Dahl, Michael A. Hamilton, Joseph L. Wooden, Kenneth A. Foland, Robert Frei, James A. McCombs, and Daniel K. Holm.

March 2007: Did a major large igneous province (LIP) occupy a polar location in Early Proterozoic times? H.C. Halls, A. Kumar, R. Srinivasan, M.A. Hamilton

April 2007: The Kerguelen Large Igneous Province, Stephanie Ingle

May 2007: Geochemistry of Deccan Traps dikes: insights into the evolution of a flood basalt feeder system, Lo˙c Vanderkluysen, John J. Mahoney, Peter R. Hooper, Hetu C. Sheth, Ranjini Ray

June 2007: The Manihiki Plateau: Implications for Early Cretaceous Large Igneous Province Formation in the Pacific, Stephanie Ingle, John J. Mahoney, Hiroshi Sato, Millard F. Coffin, Jun-Ichi Kimura, Naoto Hirano, Masao Nakanishi

July 2007: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology of the Malani Igneous Suite, Northwest India: Implications for the configuration of Rodinia and the assembly of Gondwana, Laura C. Gregory, Joseph G. Meert, Bernard Bingen, Manoj K. Pandit, Trond H. Torsvik

August 2007: Alkaline intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia, Franco Pirajno

September 2007: The Agulhas Plateau – a Large Igneous Province in the SW Indian Ocean, Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Karsten Gohl, Nicole Parsiegla

October 2007: Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) on Venus, Vicki L. Hansen

November 2007: The Midcontinent Rift in the Lake Superior Region: A 1.1 Ga Large Igneous Province, James D. Miller, Jr.

December 2007: The high Fe-Ti mafic magmatism in the Paleoproterozoic Broken Hill Block of the Curnamona Province, southeastern Australia, as part of a Large Igneous Province?, Massimo Raveggi, David Giles, John Foden, Mike Raetz


2006

January 2006: The Karoo Volcanic Province in Antarctica: Identifying Mantle Sources. Teal Riley

February 2006: Ontong Java - Manihiki - Hikurangi Were Originally One Plateau. Brian Taylor

March 2006: Cretaceous-Paleogene basalts of the Tian Shan. Aleksander V. Mikolaichuk, Vladimir A Simonov

April 2006: The High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP): Evidence for an Associated Giant Radiating Dyke Swarm. Kenneth L. Buchan, Richard E. Ernst

May 2006: Ancient LIPS Reconstructed (2.50, 2.45, 2.22, And 2.10 Ga): The Utility Of Precise Magmatic “Barcodes” And “Piercing Points” In Matching Ancient Continental Fragments, Wouter Bleeker, Richard Ernst

June 2006: Permian large volume basalts in Tarim basin, Shufeng Yang, Zilong Li, Hanlin Chen, Chuanwan Dong, Xing Yu, Chengzao Jia, Guoqi Wei

July 2006: Magmatic and Volcanic Phases in Planetary Evolution as Global Large Igneous Provinces (GLIPS): The Hesperian Ridged Plains of Mars, James W. Head

August 2006: Hart-Carson LIP, Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, Ian M. Tyler, Steve Sheppard, Franco Pirajno, and Tim J. Griffin

September 2006: The Nauru Basin, Kimihiro Mochizuki, Millard F. Coffin, Olav Eldholm, Asahiko Taira

October 2006: The Kalkarindji Continental Flood Basalt Province: A new Large Igneous Province in Australia, Linda Glass

November 2006: Timescales of plume-lithosphere interactions in LIPs: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of alkaline igneous rocks from the Paraná-Etendeka large igneous province, S. A. Gibson

December 2006: Timing and nature of the the Early Cretaceous volcanism in northeast China, Fei Wang,  Xin-hua Zhou,  Lian-Chang Zhang,  Ji-Feng Ying,  Yu-Tao Zhang,  Fu-yuan Wu,  Ri-xiang Zhu


2005

January 2005: The Ethiopian Large Igneous Province. Nicholas Arndt, Martin A. Menzies

February 2005: Late Paleoproterozoic Large Igneous Provinces from central and southeastern Brazil. Alexandre de Oliveira Chaves, Jose Marques Correia Neves

March 2005: The Volynian Flood Basalt Province and coeval (Ediacaran) magmatism in Baltoscandia and Laurentia. Per-Gunnar Andreasson, Kenneth L. Buchan, Leonid V. Shumlyanskyy, and Richard E. Ernst

April 2005: The Ontong Java Plateau. J. Godfrey Fitton, John J. Mahoney, Paul J. Wallace, and Andrew D. Saunders

May 2005:
The Bushveld Large Igneous Province. Judith A. Kinnaird. Download pdf (3.9 Mb)

June 2005: The Xiong’er Group: A 1.76 Ga Large Igneous Province in East-Central China? Franco Pirajno, Yanjing Chen

July 2005: The Marnda Moorn LIP, a late Mesoproterozoic large igneous province in the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia. Michael TD Wingate, Robert T Pidgeon

August 2005: The Early Cretaceous Whitsunday Silicic Large Igneous Province of eastern Australia. Scott Bryan

September 2005: The Early Paleoproterozoic (2.5-2.36 Ga) Baltic Large Igneous Province (BLIP): An Example of Siliceous High-Magnesian (Boninite-Like) Magmatism in a Within-Plate Setting. Evgenii V. Sharkov

October 2005: The Late Early Cambrian Kalkarindji Continental Flood Basalt Province: A Link To Mass Extinction. Lena Z. Evins

November 2005: Nature of the mantle source of the Tianshan Carboniferous rift-relatedbasalts. Lin-Qi Xia, Zu-Chun Xia,Xue-Yi Xu, Xiang-Min Li, Zhong-Pin Ma, Li-She Wang

December 2005: Mafic volcaniclastic deposits in the Ferrar LIP, Antarctica. Pierre-Simon Ross and James D.L. White

2004

January 2004: The Warakurna large igneous province: A new Mesoproterozoic large igneous province in west-central Australia. Michael T.D. Wingate, Franco Pirajno, Paul A. Morris

February 2004: The Gunbarrel mafic magmatic event: A key 780 Ma time marker for Rodinia plate reconstructions. Stephen S. Harlan, Larry Heaman, Anthony N. LeCheminant, Wayne R. Premo

March 2004: The Siberian large igneous province. Marc K. Reichow, Andrew D. Saunders, Alexei V. Ivanov, Victor N. Puchkov

April 2004: Lunar mare basalt volcanism: Formation of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) on a one-plate planet. James W. Head

May 2004: Ca. 1880 Ma Circum-Superior LIP. Richard E. Ernst

June 2004: Caribbean-Colombian Oceanic Plateau. Andrew C. Kerr

July 2004: Remnants of an Archean Large Igneous Province: Evidence from the komatiite-bearing greenstone belts of the northern Rae domain, Nunavut, Canada. Trevor MacHattie, Larry Heaman, Robert Creaser, Tom Skulski, and Hamish Sandeman

August 2004:Coeval large-scale magmatism in the Kalahari and Laurentian cratons during Rodinia assembly. Richard E. Hanson , James L. Crowley, Samuel A. Bowring, Jahandar Ramezani, Wulf A. Gose, Ian W. D. Dalziel, James A. Pancake, Emily K. Seidel, Thomas G. Blenkinsop, and Joshua Mukwakwami

September 2004: Large igneous provinces on Mars: Ascraeus Mons. H. Hiesinger and J.W. Head III

October 2004: The Emeishan large igneous province: Integrated geologic, geophysical and geochemical evidence for a fossil mantle plume. Yi-Gang Xu, Bin He and Sun-Lin Chung

November 2004: Mantle dynamics and genesis of mafic magmatism in the intermontane Pacific Northwest. Victor E. Camp and Martin E. Ross

December 2004: The Fortescue Group, Western Australia; An Archaean (2.7 Ga) Large Igneous Province. Franco Pirajno


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