Geology of Hot Spot Flood Basalts
Location: Brazil Dates: Aug. 6-11, 2010 oxfordjounrals.org
Iguacu Falls
What do you see?
Coatis-mammal
What rock could this be…? 1.Cement 2.Vesicular Basalt 3.Weathered sandstone
Vesicular basalt
References MAP: Piero Comin-Chiaramonti 1, Marcia Ernesto 2, Victor Fernandez Velázquez 3 & Celso de Barro Gomes 3 1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dell'Ambiente e delle Materie Prime. Trieste University. Piazzale Europa, 1. I-34127, Trieste, Italy. 2 Instituto Astrónomico e Geofisico, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, Citade Universitaria São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3 Instituto de Geociências, São Paulo University. Rua do Lago 562, CEP , São Paulo, SP, Brazil.