Continental flood basalts / Континентальные плато-базальты (траппы)

Early studies of continental flood basalts, particularly those of the North Atlantic Tertiary Province, played a major role in the development of igneous petrology. Petrologists, geochemists, geophysicists and field geologists have never looked back. The literature on various aspects of continental flood basalts is as vast as it is varied. Flood basalts have been investigated for the light they shed on petrogenesis, as sites for nuclear waste storage, as a cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions, and for a host of other reasons <...>