MICHAEL MANGA

Class meeting times: Fridays 1-3 pm

Room: McCone 401

Reading list:

• February 1: Introduction
• Cox, K.G. (1981) A model for flood basalt volcanism, J. Petrol., vol. 21, 629-650. pdf
• Coffin, M.F., and O. Eldholm (1994) Large igneous provinces: Crustal structure, dimensions, and external consequences, Rev. Geophys., vol. 32, 1-36. pdf
• February 8: Emplacements rates
• Renne, P.R. et al. (1995) Synchrony and causal relations between Permian-Triassic boundary crises and Siberian flood volcanism, Science, vol. 269, 1413-1416. pdf
• Hofman, C. et al. (2000) 40Ar/39Ar dating of mineral separates and whole rocks from the Western Ghats lava pile: Further constraints on duration and age of the Deccan traps, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., vol. 180, 13-27. pdf
• Reichow, M.K. et al. (2002) 40Ar/39Ar dates from the west Siberian Basin: Siberian flood basalt province doubled, Science, vol. 296, 1846-1849. pdf
• February 15: Inflated flows and continental flood basalts
How were the individual flows in flood basalt provinces formed?
• Guilbaud, M.-N. et al. (2005) Morphology, surface structures, and emplacement of lavas produced by Laki, A.D. 1783-1784, in Kinematics and Dynamics of Lava Flows, GSA Special paper 396, Manga and Ventura editors, 81-102. pdf
• Guilbaud, M.-N. et al. (2007) Role of syn-eruptive cooling and degassing on textures of lavas from the AD 1783-1784 Laki eruption, South Iceland, J. Petrol., vol. 48, 1265-1294. pdf
• Self, S. et al. (1998) The importance of pahoehoe, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., vol. 26, 81-110. pdf

• February 22: The Laki eruption and environmental consequences of basaltic eruptions
In 1783, 14 cubic km of basalt erupted in Iceland over a period of 8 months. This is similar to the mean eruption rate for LIPS. See Laki eruption for more details.
• Thordarson, T. and S. Self (2003) Atmospheric and environmentaleffects of the 1783-1784 Laki eruption: A review and reassessment, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 108, D1 4011, doi:10.1029/2001JD002042. pdf
• Courtillot, V. (2005) Perspective: New evidence for massive pollution and mortality in Europe in 1783-1784 may have bearing on global change and mass extinctions, C.R. Geoscience, vol. 337, 635-637. pdf
• Kerr, R.A. (2007) Humongous eruptions linked to dramatic environmental changes, Science, vol. 316, 527. pdf
• Storey, M. et al. (2007) Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the opening of he Northeast Atlantic, Science, vol. 316, 587-589. pdf

• February 29: Sills
• Cawthorn, R.G. and F. Walraven (1998) Emplacement and crystallization time for the Bushveld complex, J. Petrology, vol. 39, 1669-1697. pdf
• Hersum, T., et al. (2007) Contact partial melting of granitic country rock, melt segregation, and re-injection as dikes into Ferrar dolerite sills, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, J. Petrology, vol. 48, 2125-2148. pdf
• Bedard, J., et al. (2007) Large-scale mechanical redistribution of orthopyroxene and plagioclase in the Basement sill, Ferrar dolerites, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Petrological, mineral-chemical and field evidence for channelized movement of crystals and melt, J. Petrology, vol. 48, 2289-2326. pdf

• March 7: Global climate effects
• Payne, J.L. and L.R. Kump (2007) Evidence for recurrent early Triassic massive volcanism from quantitative interpretation of carbon isotope fluctuations, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., vol. 256, 264-277. pdf
• Self, S., et al. (2006) Volatile fluxes during flood basalt eruptions and potential effects on the global environment: A Deccan perspective, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., vol. 248, 518-532. pdf

• March 21: The plume head and tail model
• Ito, G., and P.E. van Keken (2007) Hot spots and melting anomalies, in Treatise of Geophysics, 371-435. pdf

• April 4: The plume head and tail model, continued
• Labs experiments: compositional and thermal plumes

• April 11: Isotope constraints
• Wolff, J.A. et al. (2008) Columbia River flood basalts from a centralized crustal magmatic system, Nature Geoscience, vol. 1, 177-180.

• April 18: LIPS and the continental crust
• Bleeker, W., and R. Ernst (2006) Short-lived mantle generated magmatic events and their dyke swarms: The key unlocking Earth's palaegeographic record back to 2.6 Ga, in Dyke Swarms - Time Markers of Crustal Evolution, Hanski et al. editors, pp 3-26. pdf
• Stein, M., and S.L. Goldstein (1996) From plume head to continental lithosphere in the Arabian-Nubian shield, Nature, vol. 382, 773-778. pdf

• April 25: Seismic constraints, and the interaction between LIPS and extension
• White, R.S., et al. (2008) Lower-crustal intrusion on the North Atlantic continental margin, Nature, vol. 452, 460-464. pdf
• Inoue, H., et al. (2008) Intrabasement reflections of the Ontong Java Plateau: Implications for plateau construction, G-cubed, vol. 9, Q04014, doi:10.1029/2007GC001780. pdf

• May 2: LIPS, paleolatitude and extinctions
• To be announced soon

Large Igneous Provinces (from Bryan et al., GSA special paper, 2002)

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