Magmatic systems of large continental igneous provinces

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) formed by mantle superplume events have irreversibly changed their composition in the geological evolution of the Earth from high-Mg melts (during Archean and early Paleoproterozoic) to Phanerozoic-type geochemically enriched Fe-Ti basalts and picrites at 2.3 Ga. We pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: E. Sharkov, M. Bogina, A. Chistyakov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-07-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Subjects:
LIP
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167498711630024X