n.the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
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Flood Basalts and Hot-Spot Tracks: Plume Heads and Tails Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution An olivine-free mantle source of Hawaiian shield basalts. Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts Extensive 200-Million-Year-Old Continental Flood Basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts A method of discriminating between different types of mid-ocean ridge basalts and continental tholeiites with the Nb1bZr1bY diag... Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian–Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China