Sentences with phrase «huge igneous»

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Large igneous provinces, or LIPs, are huge pools of volcanic rocks poured out at the Earth's surface.

His team found a layer of igneous rock in Southwest China, and used the marine fossils to date it to a huge volcanic eruption 260 million years ago.

In Earth's past the trigger for these greenhouse gas emissions was often unusually massive volcanic eruptions known as «Large Igneous Provinces,» with knock - on effects that included huge releases of CO2 and methane from organic - rich sediments.

They have all been associated with huge carbon emissions, from Large Igneous Provinces (Some debate on that regarding PETM).