o Fissure eruptions = flood basalts and lava plateaus
o Often cover great expanses of land.
o Columbia River basalts (Columbia Plateau) are good examples of flood basalts covering 200,000 square km to an average thickness of about 1 km.
o Deccan Traps (as seen in "Slum-Dog Millionaire), 65 million years ago, implicated in the extinction of Dinosaurs.
o Siberian Traps.