Karmutsen Formation
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Karmutsen Formation
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The Karmutsen Formation is a Late Triassic volcanic sequence of tholeiitic pillow basalts and breccias on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is perhaps the thickest accreted section of an oceanic plateau worldwide, exposing up to 6000 m of basal sediment-sill complexes, basaltic to picritic pillow lavas, pillow breccia, and thick, massive basalt flows. The widespread succession of basalts and breccias are part of the Insular Mountains, a large volcanic mountain range that forms Vanco
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Late Triassic volcanic sequence on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmutsen_Formation
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2023-09-25T05:34:49Z
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