Sentences with phrase «called igneous»

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One suspect behind several mass extinctions is a kind of enormous volcanic zone called a large igneous province, or LIP.

Central to their study is a large igneous province (LIP) in Russia called the Siberian Traps.

Scientists now think that massive volcanic activity, in a Large Igneous Province called the Siberian Traps, raised air and sea temperatures and released toxic amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over a very short period of time.

Tarduno and his students had been studying massive lava flows that cover some of the High Arctic islands, and believes the same volcanic events that produced those igneous rocks also could have produced a series of islands along a low underwater mountain range in the Arctic Ocean called Alpha Ridge.

Earth and Venus should have had sufficient inner heat to remelt some of its surface basalt to form a range of igneous rocks called granites or «granitoids,» which are coarse - grained blends of lighter minerals (including quartz, feldspar, and mica that are common in Earth's crust but rarer in the smaller planetsimals).

Ironically for our green friends, the ore comes from a type of rock called «carbonatite» which is a relatively rare and unusual type of igneous rock composed primarily of carbonate minerals.

When this occurs another massively common igneous and metamorphic phyllosilicate mineral called mica grows directly into the faults as well.

Also even in those areas just south of the tundra there is in Canada a thing called the Canadian Shield and unless he knows of a way to grow crops on igneous rock that seems unlikely to happen.