Emplacement of continental flood basalt lava flows

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 100, Issue , 1997, Pages 381-410

  Self, Stephen ^a   Thordarson, Thorvaldur ^a,b   Keszthelyi, Laszlo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 84995277563     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM100p0381     Document Type: Chapter

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