11. On land, they are very common at plate boundaries and in flood basalt provinces. 12. The influence of known volcanic eruptions does not compare to that of flood basalts . 13. In the waning stages of the flood basalt episode, large explosive caldera-forming eruptions also occurred. 14. The entire district is a part of the Deccan Traps flood basalts of the Cretaceous-Paleocene. 15. Included within the Interior Plateau is a coalescing series of layered flood basalt lava flows. 16. Just southeast of the Queen Maud Gulf, the Ekalulia Formation flood basalts remain to thick. 17. Another hypothesis builds on the flood basalt eruption theory. 18. Others, have pointed out the coincidence of many continental flood basalt events with continental rifting. 19. Today, the flood basalts are preserved in the synclines adjacent to the Ramapo Fault system. 20. They are part of the massive fissure flood basalts of the Columbia River Basalt Group.