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SUBMITTER: Troll VR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345756 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Troll Valentin R VR Emeleus C Henry CH Nicoll Graeme R GR Mattsson Tobias T Ellam Robert M RM Donaldson Colin H CH Harris Chris C
Scientific reports 20190124 1
Large-volume pyroclastic eruptions are not known from the basalt-dominated British Palaeogene Igneous Province (BPIP), although silicic magmatism is documented from intra-caldera successions in central volcanoes and from small-volume ash-layers in the associated lava fields. Exceptions are the Sgùrr of Eigg (58.7 Ma) and Òigh-sgeir pitchstones in the Inner Hebrides (>30 km apart), which have been conjectured to represent remnants of a single large silicic event. Currently available major element ...[more]