Abstract
The most voluminous outpourings of lava on the land surface of the Earth have built imposing stacks of superimposed basalt flows, as much as several thousands of metres thick. Such stacks, or piles, were fed from linear zones of fracturing and fissuring in the crust through which basaltic magma emerged in successive pulses, flooding out over the surrounding region for distances as far as a few hundred kilometres. The fluid nature of these ‘flood basalt’ lavas resulted in the formation of a subdued or planar new topography which, when uplifted during subsequent tectonic episodes, has produced what are popularly termed ‘volcanic plateaus’.
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