geology of hot spot flood basalts
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Geology of Hot Spot Flood Basalts
Location: BrazilDates: Aug. 6-11, 2010
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Iguacu Falls
Iguacu Falls
What do you see?
Coatis-mammal
What rock could this be…?
1.Cement2.Vesicular Basalt3.Weathered sandstone
Vesicular basalt
ReferencesMAP: Piero Comin-Chiaramonti1, Marcia Ernesto2, Victor Fernandez Velázquez3 & Celso de Barro Gomes3
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dell'Ambiente e delle Materie Prime. Trieste University. Piazzale Europa, 1. I-34127, Trieste, Italy. comin@univ.trieste.it2Instituto Astrónomico e Geofisico, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, Citade Universitaria. 05508-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil. marcia@iag.usp.br3Instituto de Geociências, São Paulo University. Rua do Lago 562, CEP 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. cgomes@usp.br
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