Throughout much of Earth’s history, oceanic plateau
formation correlates with periods of environmental catastrophic events characterized by oceanic anoxia, leading
to black shale formation and mass extinction.
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evolution of the continental crust: support for the oceanic plateau
model of continental growth. Reviews of Geophysics, 33(Supplement), 231–242.
Bond, D. P. G., and Wignall, P. B., 2014. Large igneous provinces
and mass extinctions: an update. In Keller, G., and Kerr, A. C.
(eds.), Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and
Effects. Boulder: Geological Society of America. Geological
Society of America Special Paper, 505, pp. 29–55,
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Borissova, I., Coffin, M. F., Charvis, P., and Operto, S., 2003. Structure and development of a microcontinent: Elan Bank in the
southern Indian Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
4, 1071, doi:10.1029/2003GC000535, 9.
Bryan, S. E., and Ernst, R. E., 2008. Revised definition of Large
Igneous Provinces (LIPs). Earth Science Reviews, 86, 175–202.
Campbell, I. H., 2007. Testing the plume theory. Chemical Geology,
241, 153–176.
Chavagnac, V., 2004. A geochemical and Nd isotopic study of Barberton komatiites (South Africa): implication for the Archean
mantle. Lithos, 75, 253–281.
Cloos, M., 1993. Lithospheric buoyancy and collisional orogenesis:
subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs,
spreading ridges, and seamounts. Geological Society of America
Bulletin, 105, 715–737.
Coffin, M. F., and Eldholm, O., 1992. Volcanism and continental
break-up: a global compilation of large igneous provinces. In
Storey, B. C., Alabaster, T., and Pankhurst, R. J. (eds.),
Magmatism and the Causes of Continental Breakup. London:
Geological Society of London. Special publication, pp. 17–30.
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Condie, K. C., Marais, D. J. D., and Abbott, D., 2001. Precambrian
superplumes and supercontinents: a record in black shales, carbon isotopes, and paleoclimates? Precambrian Research, 106,
239–260.
Donnelly, T. W., 1973. Late Cretaceous basalts from the Caribbean,
a possible flood basalt province of vast size. Eos, 54, 1004.
Duncan, R. A., 2002. A time frame for construction of the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge. Journal of Petrology, 43,
1109–1119.
Ernst, R. E., and Buchan, K. L., 2001. Large mafic magmatic events
through time and links to mantle plume heads. In Ernst, R. E.,
and Buchan, K. L. (eds.), Mantle Plumes: Their Identification
Through Time. Boulder: Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 352, pp. 483–575.
Farnetani, C. G., and Richards, M. A., 1994. Numerical investigations of the mantle plume initiation model for flood basalt events.
Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 99(B7),
13813–13833.
Fitton, J. G., and Godard, M., 2004. Origin and evolution of
magmas on the Ontong Java Plateau. In Fitton, J. G., Mahoney,
J. J., Wallace, P. J., and Saunders, A. D. (eds.), Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau. London: Geological Society.
Geological Society of London, Special publication,
229, pp. 151–178.
Fletcher, B. J., Brentnall, S. J., Anderson, C. W., Berner, R. A., and
Beerling, D. J., 2008. Atmospheric carbon dioxide linked with
Mesozoic and early Cenozoic climate change. Nature Geoscience, 1, 43–48.
Frey, F. A., Coffin, M. F., Wallace, P. J., and Weis, D., 2003. Leg
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province. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific
Results, 183, 1–48.
Frey, F. A., Weis, D., Borisova, A.Y., and Xu, G., 2002, Involvement of continental crust in the formation of the Cretaceous Kerguelen Plateau: New perspectives from ODP Leg 120 sites:
Journal of Petrology, v. 43, p. 1207–1239.
Greene, A. R., Scoates, J. S., and Weis, D., 2008. Wrangellia
flood basalts in Alaska: a record of plume-lithosphere
interaction in a Late Triassic accreted oceanic plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(12), Q12004, doi:10.1029/
2008GC002092.
Greene, A. R., Scoates, J. S., Weis, D., and Israel, S., 2009a. Geochemistry of Triassic flood basalts from the Yukon (Canada) segment of the accreted Wrangellia oceanic plateau. Lithos, 110,
1–19.
Greene, A. R., Scoates, J. S., Weis, D., Nixon, G. T., and Kieffer, B.,
2009b. Melting history and magmatic evolution of basalts and
picrites from the accreted Wrangellia oceanic plateau, Vancouver
Island, Canada. Journal of Petrology, 50, 467–505.
Haq, B. U., Hardenbol, J., and Vail, P. R., 1987. Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic. Science, 235, 1156–1167.
Herzberg, C., 2004. Partial melting below the Ontong Java Plateau.
In Fitton, J. G., Mahoney, J. J., Wallace, P. J., and Saunders,
A. D. (eds.), Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau.
London: Geological Society. Geological Society of London,
Special publication, 229, pp. 179–184.
Herzberg, C., and Gazel, E., 2009. Petrological evidence for secular
cooling in mantle plumes. Nature, 458, 619–622.
Heydolph, K., Murphy, D. T., Geldmacher, J., Romanova, I. V.,
Greene, A., Hoernle, K., Weis, D., and Mahoney, J., 2014. Plume
versus plate origin for the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau
(NW Pacific): insights from Nd, Pb and Hf isotopes. Lithos,
200, 49–63.
Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., and Koizumi, K., 2008. Petrogenesis of
greenstones from the Mino-Tamba belt, SW Japan: evidence for
an accreted Permian oceanic plateau. Lithos, 100, 127–146.
Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Kimura, J.-I., Senda, R., Kawabata, H.,
and Tatsumi, Y., 2012. Picrites in central Hokkaido: evidence of
extremely high temperature magmatism in the Late Jurassic
ocean recorded in an accreted oceanic plateau. Geology, 40,
411–414.
Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Kimura, J.-I., Senda, R., and
Miyamoto, T., 2014. Jurassic plume-origin ophiolites in Japan:
accreted fragments of oceanic plateaus. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168, 1–24.
Jahren, A. H., Conrad, C. P., Arens, N. C., Mora, G., and LithgowBertelloni, C., 2005. A plate tectonic mechanism for methane
hydrate release along subduction zones. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 236, 691–704.
Jarvis, I., Lignum, J. S., Gröcke, D. R., Jenkyns, H. C., and Pearce,
M. A., 2011. Black shale deposition, atmospheric CO 2 drawdown, and cooling during the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic
Anoxic Event. Paleoceanography, 26, PA3201, doi:10.1029/
2010PA002081.
Kerr, A. C., 1998. Oceanic plateau formation: a cause of mass
extinction and black shale deposition around the CenomanianTuronian boundary. Journal of the Geological Society
(London), 155, 619–626.
Kerr, A. C., 2003. Oceanic plateaus. In Rudinck, R. L. (ed.), The
Crust. Treatise on Geochemistry (Holland, H. G., Turekian,
K. K. (eds.)). Oxford: Elsevier-Pergamon, Vol. 3, pp. 537–566.
Kerr, A. C., 2005. Oceanic LIPs: the kiss of death. Elements, 1,
289–292.
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formation correlates with periods of environmental catastrophic events characterized by oceanic anoxia, leading
to black shale formation and mass extinction.
Bibliography
Abbott, D., and Mooney, W., 1995. The structural and geochemical
evolution of the continental crust: support for the oceanic plateau
model of continental growth. Reviews of Geophysics, 33(Supplement), 231–242.
Bond, D. P. G., and Wignall, P. B., 2014. Large igneous provinces
and mass extinctions: an update. In Keller, G., and Kerr, A. C.
(eds.), Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and
Effects. Boulder: Geological Society of America. Geological
Society of America Special Paper, 505, pp. 29–55,
doi:10.1130/2014.2505(02).
Borissova, I., Coffin, M. F., Charvis, P., and Operto, S., 2003. Structure and development of a microcontinent: Elan Bank in the
southern Indian Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
4, 1071, doi:10.1029/2003GC000535, 9.
Bryan, S. E., and Ernst, R. E., 2008. Revised definition of Large
Igneous Provinces (LIPs). Earth Science Reviews, 86, 175–202.
Campbell, I. H., 2007. Testing the plume theory. Chemical Geology,
241, 153–176.
Chavagnac, V., 2004. A geochemical and Nd isotopic study of Barberton komatiites (South Africa): implication for the Archean
mantle. Lithos, 75, 253–281.
Cloos, M., 1993. Lithospheric buoyancy and collisional orogenesis:
subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs,
spreading ridges, and seamounts. Geological Society of America
Bulletin, 105, 715–737.
Coffin, M. F., and Eldholm, O., 1992. Volcanism and continental
break-up: a global compilation of large igneous provinces. In
Storey, B. C., Alabaster, T., and Pankhurst, R. J. (eds.),
Magmatism and the Causes of Continental Breakup. London:
Geological Society of London. Special publication, pp. 17–30.
Coffin, M. F., and Eldholm, O., 2005. Large igneous provinces. In
Selley, R. C., Cocks, R., and Plimer, I. R. (eds.), Encyclopedia
of Geology. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 315–323.
Condie, K. C., Marais, D. J. D., and Abbott, D., 2001. Precambrian
superplumes and supercontinents: a record in black shales, carbon isotopes, and paleoclimates? Precambrian Research, 106,
239–260.
Donnelly, T. W., 1973. Late Cretaceous basalts from the Caribbean,
a possible flood basalt province of vast size. Eos, 54, 1004.
Duncan, R. A., 2002. A time frame for construction of the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge. Journal of Petrology, 43,
1109–1119.
Ernst, R. E., and Buchan, K. L., 2001. Large mafic magmatic events
through time and links to mantle plume heads. In Ernst, R. E.,
and Buchan, K. L. (eds.), Mantle Plumes: Their Identification
Through Time. Boulder: Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 352, pp. 483–575.
Farnetani, C. G., and Richards, M. A., 1994. Numerical investigations of the mantle plume initiation model for flood basalt events.
Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 99(B7),
13813–13833.
Fitton, J. G., and Godard, M., 2004. Origin and evolution of
magmas on the Ontong Java Plateau. In Fitton, J. G., Mahoney,
J. J., Wallace, P. J., and Saunders, A. D. (eds.), Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau. London: Geological Society.
Geological Society of London, Special publication,
229, pp. 151–178.
Fletcher, B. J., Brentnall, S. J., Anderson, C. W., Berner, R. A., and
Beerling, D. J., 2008. Atmospheric carbon dioxide linked with
Mesozoic and early Cenozoic climate change. Nature Geoscience, 1, 43–48.
Frey, F. A., Coffin, M. F., Wallace, P. J., and Weis, D., 2003. Leg
183 synthesis: Kerguelen plateau-broken ridge-a large igneous
province. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific
Results, 183, 1–48.
Frey, F. A., Weis, D., Borisova, A.Y., and Xu, G., 2002, Involvement of continental crust in the formation of the Cretaceous Kerguelen Plateau: New perspectives from ODP Leg 120 sites:
Journal of Petrology, v. 43, p. 1207–1239.
Greene, A. R., Scoates, J. S., and Weis, D., 2008. Wrangellia
flood basalts in Alaska: a record of plume-lithosphere
interaction in a Late Triassic accreted oceanic plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(12), Q12004, doi:10.1029/
2008GC002092.
Greene, A. R., Scoates, J. S., Weis, D., and Israel, S., 2009a. Geochemistry of Triassic flood basalts from the Yukon (Canada) segment of the accreted Wrangellia oceanic plateau. Lithos, 110,
1–19.
Greene, A. R., Scoates, J. S., Weis, D., Nixon, G. T., and Kieffer, B.,
2009b. Melting history and magmatic evolution of basalts and
picrites from the accreted Wrangellia oceanic plateau, Vancouver
Island, Canada. Journal of Petrology, 50, 467–505.
Haq, B. U., Hardenbol, J., and Vail, P. R., 1987. Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic. Science, 235, 1156–1167.
Herzberg, C., 2004. Partial melting below the Ontong Java Plateau.
In Fitton, J. G., Mahoney, J. J., Wallace, P. J., and Saunders,
A. D. (eds.), Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau.
London: Geological Society. Geological Society of London,
Special publication, 229, pp. 179–184.
Herzberg, C., and Gazel, E., 2009. Petrological evidence for secular
cooling in mantle plumes. Nature, 458, 619–622.
Heydolph, K., Murphy, D. T., Geldmacher, J., Romanova, I. V.,
Greene, A., Hoernle, K., Weis, D., and Mahoney, J., 2014. Plume
versus plate origin for the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau
(NW Pacific): insights from Nd, Pb and Hf isotopes. Lithos,
200, 49–63.
Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., and Koizumi, K., 2008. Petrogenesis of
greenstones from the Mino-Tamba belt, SW Japan: evidence for
an accreted Permian oceanic plateau. Lithos, 100, 127–146.
Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Kimura, J.-I., Senda, R., Kawabata, H.,
and Tatsumi, Y., 2012. Picrites in central Hokkaido: evidence of
extremely high temperature magmatism in the Late Jurassic
ocean recorded in an accreted oceanic plateau. Geology, 40,
411–414.
Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Kimura, J.-I., Senda, R., and
Miyamoto, T., 2014. Jurassic plume-origin ophiolites in Japan:
accreted fragments of oceanic plateaus. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168, 1–24.
Jahren, A. H., Conrad, C. P., Arens, N. C., Mora, G., and LithgowBertelloni, C., 2005. A plate tectonic mechanism for methane
hydrate release along subduction zones. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 236, 691–704.
Jarvis, I., Lignum, J. S., Gröcke, D. R., Jenkyns, H. C., and Pearce,
M. A., 2011. Black shale deposition, atmospheric CO 2 drawdown, and cooling during the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic
Anoxic Event. Paleoceanography, 26, PA3201, doi:10.1029/
2010PA002081.
Kerr, A. C., 1998. Oceanic plateau formation: a cause of mass
extinction and black shale deposition around the CenomanianTuronian boundary. Journal of the Geological Society
(London), 155, 619–626.
Kerr, A. C., 2003. Oceanic plateaus. In Rudinck, R. L. (ed.), The
Crust. Treatise on Geochemistry (Holland, H. G., Turekian,
K. K. (eds.)). Oxford: Elsevier-Pergamon, Vol. 3, pp. 537–566.
Kerr, A. C., 2005. Oceanic LIPs: the kiss of death. Elements, 1,
289–292.
566
OCEANIC PLATEAUS