The Paraná-Etendeka Large Igneous Province (PE-LIP) (or Paraná and Etendeka Plateau; or Paraná and Etendeka Province) is a large igneous province that...
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igneous provinces: the Paraná and Etendeka traps and the Columbia River Basalt Group. The latter is the most recent large igneous province, and also one of...
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Midcontinent Rift System, Great Lakes Region, North America Paraná and Etendeka traps (Paraná, Brazil–NE Namibia) Brazilian Highlands Río de la Plata Craton...
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caused by a superplume. During the opening of the South Atlantic the Paraná–Etendeka LIP produced 1.5 million km3 of basalts and rhyolites per year, beginning...
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Pan-African-Brasiliano orogeny. Basalts similar to the Paraná and Etendeka traps, exposed to the west in the Paraná Basin, have been found underlying the Santos...
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The Paraná Basin (Portuguese: Bacia do Paraná, Spanish: Cuenca del Paraná) is a large cratonic sedimentary basin situated in the central-eastern part...
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the 200 Ma Central Atlantic Magmatic Province and a set of younger sills and dikes. The 135 Ma Paraná-Etendeka LIP was emplaced during the opening of...
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continents are often aligned with hotspot volcanism in ocean basins. The Paraná and Etendeka traps, located in South America and Africa on opposite sides of the...
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African Plate. It is also believed to be closely connected with the Paraná and Etendeka flood basalt provinces, which formed over the hotspot during the...
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Large, amethyst-lined geodes are a feature of the basalts of the Paraná and Etendeka traps found in Brazil, Uruguay and Namibia. Geodes are common in...
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