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Lips and Lips
It has been nearly 15 years since the term ‘large igneous province’ was introduced by Mike Coffin and Olaf Eldholm (1991, 1994). An umbrella term to include continental flood basalt provinces, oceanic plateaus, volcanic rifted margins and aseismic ridges, it rapidly entered common parlance even though it was, and remains, loosely defined. The key aspect of large igneous provinces (LIPs) is that...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JRSM
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0141-0768
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.96.8.402