North America's Midcontinent Rift; when rift met LIP

Rifts are segmented linear depressions that are filled with sedimentary and igneous rocks; they form by extension and often evolve into plate boundaries. Flood basalts, a class of large igneous provinces (LIPs), are broad regions of extensive volcanism formed by sublithospheric processes. Typical ri...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Geosphere (Boulder, Colo.) Colo.), 2015-10, Vol.11 (5), p.1607-1616
Hauptverfasser:	Stein, Carol A, Kley, Jonas, Stein, Seth, Hindle, David, Keller, G. Randy
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Basalt basalts Basins Bouguer anomalies Breakup crustal thickening crustal thinning Deposition extension tectonics flood basalts Floods Geological faults Geophysics gravity anomalies igneous and metamorphic rocks igneous rocks Keweenawan Rift large igneous provinces Mantle North America Petrology Phanerozoic plate tectonics Precambrian Proterozoic rifting solid Earth (tectonophysics) tectonics upper Precambrian Volcanic activity volcanic rocks
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