By J G Fitton, J J Mahoney, P J Wallace and A D Saunders
The Cretaceous submarine Ontong Java Plateau, within the western Pacific Ocean, is the main voluminous of the world's huge igneous provinces (LIPs), and represents the biggest identified magmatic occasion in the world. LIPs are the goods of basaltic volcanism on a scale and at an effusion price no longer noticeable in the world this present day, and their formation can have had major results at the Earth's weather and biosphere. The presently favoured cause of LIP formation is the quick decompression and melting of anomalously scorching mantle within the heads of newly ascended mantle plumes. This quantity summarizes the result of study aimed largely at trying out the plume-head speculation for the formation of the Ontong Java Plateau, and provides the result of built-in stories following fresh basement drilling at the plateau via the sea Drilling software.
Nineteen papers disguise issues as different as petrology, geochemistry, tectonics, volcanology, palaeomagnetism and biostratigraphy.
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