Large Igneous Province of the month

2010

June 2010: The Importance of Mercury in Understanding Plutonism and Volcanism in Early Planetary History: Early Planetary Large Igneous Provinces?, James W. Head, III

May 2010: The 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence LIP, Western Australia: Mantle Source, Crustal Contamination, Crustal Recycling, Mantle Lithosphere, and Geodynamic Setting, Nuru Said,  Robert Kerrich

April 2010: Short duration for the eruption of the Grande Ronde Basalt lavas of the Columbia River Basalts, USA, T.L. Barry, S. Self, S.P. Kelley, S. Reidel, P. Hooper, M. Widdowson

March 2010: Mafic dykes of Deccan age in the Chhattisgarh (Mesoproterozoic) Basin, Central India: implications for the origin and original spatial extent of the Deccan Large Igneous Province, N. V. Chalapathi Rao, B. Lehmann, R. Burgess, S. K. Pande and K. R. Hari

February 2010: Regional dyke swarms of the Reguibat Shield, Mauritania and Morocco: plumbing systems for Precambrian Large Igneous Provinces, Henry C. Halls

January 2010: How do your flood basalts grow? Understanding the facies architecture and rock properties of flood basalts, Dougal A. Jerram, Catherine E. Nelson, and Richard W. Hobbs


2009

December 2009: Regional-scale 2.6-1.9 Ga Large Igneous Provinces of Zimbabwe, Ulf Söderlund, Axel Hofmann, Martin B. Klausen, Johan R. Olsson, Richard E. Ernst, Per-Olof Persson

November 2009: Proterozoic Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) of Siberia, Dmitry P. Gladkochub, Sergei A. Pisarevsky, Tatiana V. Donskaya, Richard E. Ernst, Michael T.D. Wingate, Ulf Söderlund, Anatoliy M. Mazukabzov, Eugene V. Sklyarov, Michael A. Hamilton, John A. Hanes

October 2009: Late-Variscan Polymetallic Ore Deposits in Central Europe and Their Relationship to Lamprophyric Intrusions, a Large Igneous Province (LIP) and a Mantle Plume, Thomas Seifert

September 2009: 2027-2023 Ma Lac de Gras-Booth River magmatic event in the Slave craton of North America, Kenneth L. Buchan, Anthony N. LeCheminant and Otto van Breemen

August 2009: Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Carbonatites, R.E. Ernst, K. Bell

July 2009: OIB-like, heterogeneous mantle sources of Permian basaltic magmatism in the western Tarim Basin, NW China: Implications for a possible Permian Large Igneous Province, Mei-Fu Zhou, Sheng-Hong Yang

June 2009: Snake River Plain Igneous Province (12 Ma through 0 Ma), John W. Shervais, Barry B. Hanan

May 2009: 860-750 Ma Large Igneous Provinces in South China: Record of Plume Events During the Breakup of the Supercontinent Rodinia, Zheng-Xiang Li, Xian-Hua Li, Xuan-Ce Wang, Wu-Xian Li, Qiang Wang3

April 2009: 1770-1780 Ma North China Large Igneous Province, P. Peng

March 2009: The Lovejoy Basalt: A (fairly-) Large Igneous Province in Northern California, Rachel Teasdale. Download pdf (1.2 Mb)

February 2009: A Mesoproterozoic silicic LIP in South Australia: the Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite, S. Allen, J. McPhie, C. Simpson, V. Kamenetsky, I. Chambefort, A. Agangi, A. Bath, A. Garner, N. Morrow

January 2009: Reconstructing Ancient Continents Using the Large Igneous Province Record: Implications For Mineral, Hydrocarbon, and Earth Systems, Richard E. Ernst, Wouter Bleeker, Michael A. Hamilton, Ulf Söderlund

 


2008

December 2008: The Accreted Late Triassic Wrangellia Oceanic Plateau in Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia, Andrew R. Greene, James S. Scoates, Dominique Weis

November 2008: Geology of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico, Cathy Busby

October 2008: The Kunene anorthosite Complex, its satellite intrusions, and possible links to early Kibaran intrusions in Tanzania and Burundi, W.D. Maier

September 2008: The 1.27 Ga Mackenzie Large Igneous Province and Muskox layered intrusion, James M.D. Day

August 2008: The North Atlantic volcanic province (NAVP) and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), Henrik Svensen and Sverre Planke

July 2008: Early Cretaceous Comei Large Igneous Province: remnant identified in southeastern Tibet, Di-Cheng Zhu, Sun-Lin Chung, Xuan-Xue Mo, Zhi-Dan Zhao, Yao-Ling Niu, Biao Song

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

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

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

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

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

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


2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 2007: The Kerguelen Large Igneous Province, Stephanie Ingle

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

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.

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


2006
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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