Only two other eruptions -- the basalt floods of the Siberian Traps and the Deccan Traps -- were larger, and they led to two of the Earth's great extinctions. "This would have been devastating ...

A new study reports that volcanic activity forming large flood basalt provinces appears to have been the key driver of Earth's past mass extinctions.

When a grandfather and grandson took a day-trip to see evidence of the Ice Age floods, the two also found evidence of Someone ...

A University at Buffalo geologist has used computer models to show that huge lava flows -- called flood basalt eruptions -- that exited the earth’s crust relatively slowly, rather than ...

Parfitt’s computer models are the first to show that massive sheets of lava produced by flood basalt eruptions millions of years ago generated such intense heat that they functioned as a ...

Flood-basalt eruptions, lasting several millennia, release ash and toxic gases into Earth's atmosphere, causing extreme warming and - as gases are washed by rain into the sea - changes in ocean ...

Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.

The Siberian Traps, which is the largest stretch of land on the planet that can host flood basalt eruptions, certainly fit that description.

At the Fifth Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, a significant discovery regarding lunar ...

A new type of rock created during large and exceptionally hot volcanic eruptions has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean.