The Columbia River Basalts are another prime example of a flood basalt province. This province started forming ~16 million years ago and covered a significant portion of Oregon, Washington and Idaho ...
Columbia River flood basalt province : current status / Peter R. Hooper -- Evolution of the Red Sea volcanic margin, western Yemen / Martin Menzies ... [et al.] -- North Atlantic Igneous Province / ...
Information drawn from analyses of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of materials from exposed Columbia River basalts has provided insights about how magma from volcanic eruptions millions of years ago ...
Even though the Columbia River Flood Basalt Province is the smallest and youngest flood basalt province in the world, it still covers nearly 210,000 square kilometers of the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
A group of geochemists suggests they have found the smoking gun in the Karoo magma province. Their new article reports the discovery of primitive picrite lavas that may provide the first direct sample ...