The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North ...

Using advanced technology that analyzes tiny gas bubbles trapped in crystals, a team of scientists led by Cornell University ...

A mafic volcanic eruption is one characterized by lava flows ... portion of the magmatic system are manifested on the surface as periods where numerous basaltic magmas erupt outside the caldera while ...

There are two possibilities: (1) the ∼436 ± 6 Ma represents the crystallization age of the protolith (a Silurian mafic intrusion or flow) and the older zircons are xenocrysts picked up from ...

This heat source is probably related to the transport of hot, basaltic magmas from deep in the crust ... an Important Temporal Relationship Between Mafic and Silicic Volcanism in the Yellowstone ...

Trace element analysis was performed on an American PE 5300 V. The analysis process adopts China standards GBW07314, GBW07315, GBW07316 and USGS basalt standard material 6BHVO-2 for quality control, ...