| 31. | The maximum thickness of the flood basalts are and consist of 150 lava flows, each to thick.
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| 32. | These flood basalt lava flows were erupted during a single event that lasted less than five million years.
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| 33. | The ridged plains are believed to be regions of extensive flood basalts, by analogy with the lunar maria.
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| 34. | The Tristan-Gough hotspot track first formed over the mantle plume that formed the Etendeka-Paran?continental flood basalts some.
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| 35. | QUESTION : What's a flood basalt?
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| 36. | These colossal events, which may have persisted intermittently for many thousands of years, are called " flood basalts ."
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| 37. | If, however, the extension is spread over a very large area then these flood basalt events may not occur.
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| 38. | The melting broke through the surface of the craton in a massive flood basalt event, creating the Deccan Traps.
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| 39. | Volcanic eruptions sent magma through these gaps, forming the distinctive flood basalts of Minnesota's joints and lack of slaty cleavage.
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| 40. | The projecting, eroding edges of the flood basalts preserved in the syncline form the three ridges of the Watchung Mountains.
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