A Photographic Atlas of Flood Basalt Volcanism

• Main Author: Sheth, Hetu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Geology.; Geomorphology.; Geophysics.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Environmental monitoring.; Mineralogy.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.

This unique book presents hundreds of spectacular photographs of large-scale to small-scale field geological features of flood basalt volcanism from around the world. Major flood basalt provinces covered in this book include the British Palaeogene, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, Columbia River,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Flood Basalt Landscapes
• Morphology and Architecture of Flood Basalt Lava Flows and Sequences
• Structures formed during Transport, Inflation, and Degassing of Flood Basalt Lavas
• Structures formed during Cooling and Solidification of Flood Basalt Lavas
• Subaqueous Flood Basalt Volcanism, Volcanosedimentary Associations, and Lava-Sediment Interaction
• Explosive Volcanism in Flood Basalt Provinces
• The Intrusive Sub-structure of Flood Basalt Provinces
• Igneous Processes and Magmatic Diversity in Flood Basalt Provinces
• Tectonic Deformation of Flood Basalt Provinces
• Secondary Mineralization in Flood Basalts
• Weathering and Erosion of Flood Basalt Provinces
• Glossary of Terms
• References Cited
• Suggested Reading
• Flood Basalt Index
• Author Index. .