Origin of Columbia River flood basalt controlled by propagating rupture of the Farallon slab

Lijun Liu and Dave R. Stegman
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Lijun Liu: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Dave R. Stegman: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 482, issue 7385, 386-389

Abstract: A model of subduction that reveals a long tear under Oregon and Nevada provides a new mechanism for the origin of Columbia River flood basalt, resolving previous hypotheses.

Date: 2012
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