The Penghu Basalts

Chlorine in Lunar Basalts

Understanding cratonic flood basalts

The origin of continental flood basalts has been debated for decades. These eruptions often produce millions of cubic kilometers of basalt on timescales of only a million years. Although flood basalts are found in a variety of settings, no locale is more puzzling than cratonic areas such as southern Africa or the Siberian craton, where strong, thick lithosphere is breached by these large basalt...

The Growing Diversity of Lunar Basalts

Lars Borg (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL) and colleagues at LLNL, the University of New Mexico, the University of California, Berkeley, and Arizona State University have made detailed measurements of trace elements and isotopes in Northwest Africa (NWA) 032, a lunar basaltic meteorite. Previous studies had already shown that the rock is a low-titanium mare basalt. Among other thi...

Basalts in the Lance Carbonaceous Chondrite

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Siberian Flood Basalts

techniques and fractionation correcting to a 194Pt/ 95pt ratio of 0.9734 (38). 33. E. Anders and N. Grevesse, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53, 197(1989). 34. M. P. Gorton, E. S. Schandl, A. J. Naldrett, Ocean Drilling Project Scientific Results, Leg 140, in press. 35. R. J. Walker et al., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58, 4179 (1994); M. F. Horan, R. J. Walker, V. A. Fedorenko, G. K. Czamanske, ibid., i...