The Largest Volcanoes in History – Mantle Plumes explained

Flood Basalt eruptions are the largest lava eruptions in the history of this planet. In this video you will find out what causes these cataclysmic eruptions and what they mean for the evolution of life on earth.

SOURCES (papers):
Siberian Traps:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/15/5...
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/9/33...
https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Large Igneous Provinces (in general):
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...

Mantle Plumes:
https://www.pgi.gov.pl/images/stories...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....

Ontong Java:
https://web.archive.org/web/201701012...
http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/...

Mass Extinctions:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...
https://www.pnas.org/content/107/15/6555
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

SOURCES (Articles):
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-mysteri...
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-evidenc...
https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/02/...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/...
https://www.livescience.com/41909-new...
http://news.mit.edu/2015/siberian-tra...
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/sc...
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/flood_basa...
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/d...

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