Flood Basalt - List of Flood Basalts

List of Flood Basalts

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All major continental flood basalts (also known as traps) and oceanic plateaus, together forming a listing of large igneous provinces, which is provided below. The listing ranges from the smallest Columbia flood basalts to the largest, although not yet well characterized remnants of a possible trap in eastern Siberia:

  1. The Columbia-Snake River flood basalts (see Columbia River Basalt Group)
  2. The Ethiopian and Yemen traps in the Ethiopian Highlands
  3. The North Atlantic Volcanic Province
  4. The Deccan Traps (India) 65 million years ago (end of Cretaceous period)
  5. The Caribbean large igneous province
  6. The Kerguelen Plateau
  7. The Ontong Java–Manihiki–Hikurangi Plateau
  8. The Paraná and Etendeka traps (Brazil-Namibia)
  9. The Karoo and Ferrar provinces (South Africa-Antarctica)
  10. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province
  11. The Siberian Traps (Russia) 251 million years ago (end of Permian)
  12. The Emeishan Traps (western China)
  13. The Viluy traps
  14. The Pre-Devonian traps
  15. The Coppermine River Group (Canada) part of the larger 1,270 million year old (Mesoproterozoic) Mackenzie Large Igneous Province
  16. The Strand Fiord Formation
  17. The Chilcotin Group (south-central British Columbia, Canada)
  18. The North Mountain Basalt

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