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Are flood basalt eruptions monogenetic or polygenetic?

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Title Are flood basalt eruptions monogenetic or polygenetic?
 
Creator SHETH, HC
CANON-TAPIA, E
 
Subject LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES
COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT
DECCAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE
LAVA FLOW
MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY
MAGMA EMPLACEMENT
GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD
CENTRAL INDIA
DIKE SWARMS
SYSTEMS
Volcanism
Monogenetic
Polygenetic
Flood basalt
Hawaii
Iceland
Deccan Traps
 
Description A fundamental classification of volcanoes divides them into "monogenetic" and "polygenetic." We discuss whether flood basalt fields, the largest volcanic provinces, are monogenetic or polygenetic. A polygenetic volcano, whether a shield volcano or a stratovolcano, erupts from the same dominant conduit for millions of years (excepting volumetrically small flank eruptions). A flood basalt province, built from different eruptive fissures dispersed over wide areas, can be considered a polygenetic volcano without any dominant vent. However, in the same characteristic, a flood basalt province resembles a monogenetic volcanic field, with only the difference that individual eruptions in the latter are much smaller. This leads to the question how a flood basalt province can be two very different phenomena at the same time. Individual flood basalt eruptions have previously been considered monogenetic, contrasted by only their high magma output (and lava fluidity) with typical "small-volume monogenetic" volcanoes. Field data from Hawaiian shield volcanoes, Iceland, and the Deccan Traps show that whereas many feeder dykes were single magma injections, and the eruptions can be considered "large monogenetic" eruptions, multiple dykes are equally abundant. They indicate that the same dyke fissure repeatedly transported separate magma batches, feeding an eruption which was thus polygenetic by even the restricted definition (the same magma conduit). This recognition helps in understanding the volcanological, stratigraphic, and geochemical complexity of flood basalts. The need for clear concepts and terminology is, however, strong. We give reasons for replacing "monogenetic volcanic fields" with "diffuse volcanic fields" and for dropping the term "polygenetic" and describing such volcanoes simply and specifically as "shield volcanoes," "stratovolcanoes," and "flood basalt fields.".
 
Publisher SPRINGER
 
Date 2016-01-14T11:01:43Z
2016-01-14T11:01:43Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, 104(8)2147-2162
1437-3254
1437-3262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1048-z
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17424
 
Language en