Flood Basalt Volcanism During the Past 250 Million Years
@article{Rampino1988FloodBV, title={Flood Basalt Volcanism During the Past 250 Million Years}, author={Michael R. Rampino and Richard B. Stothers}, journal={Science}, year={1988}, volume={241}, pages={663 - 668} }
A chronology of the initiation dates of major continental flood basalt volcanism is established from published potassium-argon (K-Ar) and argon-argon (Ar-Ar) ages of basaltic rocks and related basic intrusions. The dating is therefore independent of the biostratigraphic and paleomagnetic time scales. Estimated errors of the initation dates of the volcanic episodes determined from the distributions of the radiometric ages are, approximately, plus or minus 4 percent. There were 11 distinct…
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