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Columbia River flood basalt flow emplacement rates—Fast, slow, or variable?
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Published:February 07, 2019
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Stephen Reidel, Terry Tolan, Victor Camp, 2019. "Columbia River flood basalt flow emplacement rates—Fast, slow, or variable?", Field Volcanology: A Tribute to the Distinguished Career of Don Swanson, Michael P. Poland, Michael O. Garcia, Victor E. Camp, Anita Grunder
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ABSTRACT
Emplacement models for voluminous sheet flows of the Columbia River flood basalts vary significantly in style and duration, with the latter ranging from as little as one week to decades and even centuries. Testing the efficacy of such models requires detailed field studies and close examination of each stratigraphic unit. The Steens Basalt, the oldest formation of the Columbia River flood basalts, differs from the later formations in that it is composed of stacked successions of thin, commonly inflated flow lobes combined into thicker compound flows, or flow fields. These flow lobes are of limited geographic extent, with relatively...