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LIPs and implications for the structure and evolution of continental crust
Author(s) -
Ernst Richard E.,
Wang Qin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/1755-6724.13981
Subject(s) - continental crust , geology , crust , earth science , paleontology
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) have broad significance for a number of areas of geology. LIPs are important in constraining paleocontinental reconstructions (e.g. via magmatic barcodes, Bleeker and Ernst, 2006; Ernst and Bleeker 2010; and via paleomagnetism, Buchan 2014), are a new tool in resource exploration targeting (e.g. Ernst and Jowitt, 2013), are analogues for planetary intraplate magmatism (e.g. Head and Coffin, 1997; Ernst, 2014), and have a causal role in dramatic climate change throughout Earth history (Ernst and Youbi, 2017).