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- Contains several hundred beautiful and informative field photographs of large-scale to small-scale geological features of flood basalts, the largest igneous provinces on Earth
- Covers flood basalt provinces around the world and through geological time
- Provides a valuable field guide to flood basalts for researchers in geology, volcanology, igneous petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, geodynamics, geophysics, palaeontology, and climate and atmospheric science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This unique book presents hundreds of spectacular photographs of large-scale to small-scale field geological features of flood basalt volcanism from around the world. Major flood basalt provinces covered in this book include the British Palaeogene, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, Columbia River, Deccan, East Greenland, Emeishan, Ethiopian, Ferrar-Karoo-Tasmania, Iceland, Indo-Madagascar, Paraná, Siberian, West Greenland, and others. Intermediate- to small-sized flood basalts (such as Saudi Arabia and South Caucasus) are also included.
Different chapters of the book illustrate varied features of flood basalts, including landscapes, lava flow morphology and stacking, structures formed during lava flow transport, inflation and degassing, structures produced during lava solidification, subaqueous volcanism and volcanosedimentary associations, explosive volcanism, intrusions, igneous processes and magmatic diversity, tectonic deformation, secondary mineralization, and weathering and erosion.
This book will be valuable for a large audience: specialists studying flood basalt volcanology, petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics, and environmental impact and mass extinction links; nonspecialists who want to know more about flood basalts; field geologists (such as those working in geological surveys); students of volcanology and igneous petrology, and even people employed in the industry, such as those working on flood basalt-hosted groundwater or petroleum reservoirs.
Reviews
“As a reference for large igneous provinces, the book is a great addition. It serves as a virtual field trip guide for those who are interested in learning about flood basalts. … this book is recommended to geoscientists who study flood basalts as geological media that host groundwater, oil, gas, or information of environmental impacts.” (Wanfang Zhou, Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 78, 2019)
“This book fills a gap in the volcanological literature. … The photographs display the world of lava plains very well. … It is essentially a complement to textbooks, and should be in most geology libraries as a visualreference book. It will also appeal to the many individuals fascinated by volcanoes and impressed by the beauty of volcanic landscapes.” (Cliff Ollier, Current Science, Vol. 115 (1), July, 2018)
“This book is a valuable addition to the literature of flood basalts, being as the title makes clear, a collection of images showing the many features of flood basalts. It certainly banishes the idea that flood basalt provinces are monotonous and boring. Hetu Sheth, an Indian researcher on the topic has assembled 583 photographs showing all aspects of these provinces and, as noted in the foreword to the volume, ‘One good picture is worth a thousand words’. This book is a must for any self-respecting Earth science or natural history library.” (Kent Brooks, Geology Today, Vol. 35 (1), January-February 2019)
“A Photographic Atlas of Flood Basalt Volcanism is a rich, colorful text, with photographs describing and illustrating, in considerable detail, the volcanological features of the main flood basalt provinces from small to large scale. … I recommend this illustrated and very informative book as a major reference and field guide, not only to a wide audience of volcanologists and researchers but also for anyone interested in volcanic geotourism and geoheritage.” (Carlos Borrero, Bulletin of Volcanology, Vol. 80 (45), April, 2018)
“Excellence in any human endeavour is the culmination of planning, knowledge base, numerous work elements, cooperation among the persons involved. The photographic atlas under review, emphasizing the field geology of flood basalt volcanism (FBV), is one such example, being the first of its kind, cataloguing five hundred and eighty two (582) field photographs (each one with an explanatory note, a key reference and the photo credit) from ninety (90) contributors from twenty three (23) countries.
The atlas should be a very useful reference for undergraduate and graduate teaching and also a valuable field guidefor professionals working in FBPs all over the world. It should adorn the shelves of libraries, especially the Earth Science departments all over the world. As the author hopes, this atlas should encourage field geologists to bring out atlases on individual FBPs as also on other types such as arc, Ocean Island and others.” (P. Krishnamurthy, Journal of the Geological Society of India, Vol. 92, July, 2018)
“A book like this would not have been possible 30 years ago. This is due primarily to two factors: [1] contributions from numerous studies over the last 30 years that have documented the significance of flood basalt volcanism in the geological record, including their links to mass extinction events, economically significant mineralization and groundwater resources, and CO2 sequestration. [2] Digital cameras that make taking (and storing) high-quality photographs by amateur photographers possible. As a result, documenting landscapes and specific physical features of geological phenomena has never been easier. These two overarching factors, coupled with researchers who have applied modern physical geological/volcanological techniques to the study of flood basalt volcanism, have set the stage for Hetu Sheth’s book A Photographic Atlas of Flood Basalt Volcanism. Sheth is a flood basalt expert, who is well-known for his work on the Deccan Traps (India) and other flood basalt/large igneous provinces (e.g., Ontong-Java, South Caucasus, etc.) across the world. This experience is tied to high-quality image and photo captions contributed to by 89 international collaborators (mostly geologists who also work on flood basalts), yielding an impressive archive of the diverse and spectacular geological features associated with flood basalt provinces. Thus, the book is an outstanding reference for anyone interested in better understanding flood basalt volcanism on Earth.” (Matthew E. Brueseke, Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol. 6 (115), September, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Hetu Sheth
About the author
Dr. Hetu Sheth (1972 - ) is a Professor of Igneous Petrology and Volcanology in the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay, Mumbai). He earned his B.Sc. (Geology) from Mumbai University in 1992, and his M.Sc. (Applied Geology) in 1994 and PhD in 1998 from IIT Bombay. He then did post-doctoral work at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL, Ahmedabad, India), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Hawaii (USA), and the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR, Mumbai). He was Deputy Website Manager of www.mantleplumes.org (2003-05), Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences (2003-07), and Associate Editor of the Journal of Earth System Science (2004-07). He has published and reviewed many tens of papers, co-edited two research volumes, and won several awards including the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist Medal (2003), the IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award (2007), the IndianGeophysical Union (IGU) Krishnan Medal (2010), the National Geoscience Award of the Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India (2010), and the M. R. Srinivasa Rao Award in Petrology of the Geological Society of India (2017). His major research interests are flood basalt volcanism and volcanic rifted margins, and he has additional broader interests in intraplate and arc volcanism, anorthosites, granites and rhyolites, and crustal evolution.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Photographic Atlas of Flood Basalt Volcanism
Authors: Hetu Sheth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67705-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67704-0Published: 12 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88471-4Published: 09 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67705-7Published: 25 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 363
Number of Illustrations: 583 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geology, Geomorphology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Mineralogy