n.the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene

Flood Basalts and Hot-Spot Tracks: Plume Heads and Tails
Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution
An olivine-free mantle source of Hawaiian shield basalts.
Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts
Extensive 200-Million-Year-Old Continental Flood Basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province
Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes
Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust
Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts
A method of discriminating between different types of mid-ocean ridge basalts and continental tholeiites with the Nb1bZr1bY diag...
Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian–Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China