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flood basalt
(redirected from Flood volcanism)

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flood basalt [′fləd bə‚sȯlt]
(geology)


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Unlike the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, the combination of the Logoisk impact and the Afro-Arabain flood volcanism does not seem to have caused an extinction event.
Finally, the environmental consequences of accelerated volcanism are well known historically from Iceland, and the related effects were undoubtedly massive during critical periods of flood volcanism in the geological past.
Unlike the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, the combination of the Logoisk impact and the Afro-Arabain flood volcanism does not seem to have caused an extinction event.
 
 
 
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