'Super' Volcanoes ; Traps/Flood Basalts
For information on North American 'super' volcanoes and flood basalts, see the Volcanoes of North America, Hawaii, Central America page.
"What are some examples of supervolcanoes? Volcanoes that have produced exceedingly voluminous pyroclastic eruptions and formed large calderas in the past 2 million years include Yellowstone, Long Valley Caldera in eastern California, Toba in Indonesia, and Taupo in New Zealand. Other 'supervolcanoes' would likely include the large caldera volcanoes of Japan, Indonesia, Alaska (e.g. Aniakchak, Emmons, Fisher), and other areas." -- https://www2.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9819/2870
- Age of the Emeishan Flood magmatism and relations to Permian Triassic boundary events [Emeishan Traps]Earth and Planetary Science Letters 198 (2002) 449-458, by Ching-Hua Lo, Sun-Ling Chung, Tung-Yi Lee, Genyao Wu.
- Ancient Source of Earth's Biggest Eruptions Found (Deccan Traps)By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor | July 27, 2011 01:54pm ET
- Big bangs: researchers uncover secrets of deadly supervolcanoesMcGill News Room, Published: 29 May2008
- The Cretaceous-Tertiary Deccan Volcanics (Deccan Traps)Nilanjan Chatterjee, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT
- The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? (Deccan Traps)
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Youtube video. Mark Richards, Univ. of California at Berkely. Presented in collaboration with the Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University - Did Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Trigger Largest Lava Flows on Earth? [Deccan Traps]Astrobiology Web, Source: University of California, Berkeley, Posted May 1, 2015 10:48 AM
- Earth's Greatest Killer Finally Caught (Siberian Traps)By Becky Oskin, Live Science Staff Writer, December 12, 2013. News article on the Siberian Traps as a possible explanation for the Earth's worst mass extinction.
- The Emeishan large igneous province: A synthesis [Emeishan Traps]Geoscience Frontiers, Volume 5, Issue 3, May 2014, Pages 369–394J. by Gregory Shellnutt
- Flood BasaltsOregon State University, Volcano World
- From Yellowstone to Toba: Here are some of the world's biggest supervolcanoesInternational Business Times, by Hannah Osborne, updated January 2, 2017
- Historical Unrest at Large Calderas of the WorldU. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1855
- Hot Topic in the Earth Sciences: The Mantle Plume Model and Siberian “Traps”A Michigan Tech News report
- New, tighter timeline confirms ancient volcanism aligned with dinosaurs' extinction (Deccan Traps)ScienceDaily, 12/18/2014.
- Siberian Traps likely culprit for end-Permian extinctionJennifer Chu | MIT News Office, September 16, 2015
- Supervolcano eruption mystery solved (?)By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News, 6 January 2014
- Supervolcanoes Erupt by Their Own RulesScientific American, By Alexandra Witze, Nature magazine on January 5, 2014
- Supervolcano Plumbing RevealedLiveScience, by Rachael Rettner, updated 9/24/2009
- Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact"Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact," Mark A. Richards et al., GSA Bulletin, 30 April 2015
- What is a Supervolcano?
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