• Large Igneous Provinces
• General Articles on LIPs
• Kerr, A.C., White, R.V. and Saunders, A.D. 2000. LIP reading: recognising oceanic plateaus in the geological record. Journal of Petrology, 41, 1041-1056.
• White, R.V. and Saunders, A.D. 2005. Volcanism, impact and mass extinctions: incredible or credible coincidences? Lithos, 79, 299-316. Download pdf
• Saunders, A.D. 2005. Large igneous provinces: Origin and Environmental Consequences. Elements, 1, 259-263. Download pdf. Saunders, A.D., Jones, S.M., Morgan, L.A., Pierce, K.L., Widdowson, M. and Xu, Y. 2007. Regional uplift associated with continental large igneous provinces: the role of mantle plumes and the lithosphere. Chemical Geology, 241, 282-318. Download pdf.
• Saunders, A.D. 2005. Large igneous provinces: Origin and Environmental Consequences. Elements, 1, 259-263. Download pdf.
  
• Siberian Traps
• Reichow, M.K., Saunders, A.D., White, R.V., Pringle, M.S., Al’Mukhamedov, A.I., Medvedev, A., Korda, N. 2002. New ⁴⁰Ar- ³⁹Ar data on basalts from the West Siberian Basin: Extent of the Siberian flood basalt province doubled. Science, 296, 1846-1849. Download pdf.
• Saunders, A.D., England, R.W., Reichow, M.K. and White, R.V. 2005. A mantle plume origin for the Siberian Traps: Uplift and extension in the West Siberian Basin, Russia. Lithos, 79, 407-424. Download pdf.
• Saunders, A.D and Reichow, M.K. 2009. The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: A critical review. Chinese Science Bulletin, 54, 20-37. Download pdf.
• Reichow, M.K., Pringle, M.S.,  Al'Mukhamedov, A.I., Allen, M.B., Andreichev, V.L., Buslov, M.M., Davies, C.E., Fedoseev, G.S., Fitton, J.G., Inger, S., Medvedev, A.Y., Mitchell, C., Puchkov, V.N., Safonova, I.Y., Scott, R.A., Saunders, A.D., 2009. The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis, Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 277,  9-20. Download pdf.
• Reichow, M.K., Saunders, A.D., White, R.V., Al’Mukhamedov, A.I., and Medvedev, A.I. 2005. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of basalts from the West Siberian Basin: an extension of the Permo-Triassic Siberian Traps, Russia. Lithos, 79, 425-452. Download pdf.
  
• North Atlantic
• Kempton, P.D., Fitton, J.G., Saunders, A.D., Nowell, G.M., Taylor, R.N. and Hardarson, B.S. 2000. The Iceland plume in space and time: a Sr-Nd-Hf study of the North Atlantic rifted margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 177, 255-271.
• Fitton, J.G., Larsen, L.M., Saunders, A.D., Hardarson, B.S. and Kempton, P.D., 2000. Palaeogene continental to oceanic magmatism on the south-east Greenland continental margin at 63˚N: a review of Ocean Drilling Program Legs 152 and 163. Journal of Petrology, 41, 951-966.
• Fitton, J.G., Saunders, A.D., Kempton, P.D., and Hardarson, B.S. 2003. Does depleted mantle form an intrinsic part of the Iceland plume? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4, 14 pp.
• Saunders, A.D., Fitton, J.G., Kerr, A.C., Norry, M.J. and Kent, R.W. 1997. The North Atlantic Igneous Province. In: Mahoney, J.J., and Coffin, M.F. (eds) Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic and Planetary Volcanism. American Geophysical Union Monograph 100, Washington D.C., 45-94. Download pdf.

• Madagascar
• Mahoney, J.J., Saunders, A.D., Storey, M. and Randriamanantenasoa, A. 2008. Geochemistry of the Volcan de l’Androy basalt-rhyolite complex, Madagascar Cretaceous igneous province. Journal of Petrology, 49, 1069-1096. Download pdf.
• Storey, M., Mahoney, J.J, Saunders, A.D. 1997. Compositional variations in the Cretaceous basalts from Madagascar: constraints on mantle plume structure during the formation of a large igneous province. In: Mahoney, J.J., and Coffin, M.F. (eds) Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic and Planetary Volcanism, American Geophysical Union Monograph 100, Washington D.C., 95-122.
  
• Caribbean
• Kerr A.C., White, R.V., Thompson, P.M.E., Tarney, J. & Saunders, A.D., 2003. No oceanic plateau - No Caribbean Plate? The seminal role of an oceanic plateau in Caribbean plate evolution. In: Bartolini, C., Buffler, R.T. & Blickwede, J. (eds) The Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region: Hydrocarbon Habitats, Basin Formation and Plate Tectonics. American Association of Petroleum Geology Memoir, 79, 126- 268.
• Thompson, P.M.E., P. D. Kempton, R. V. White, A. C. Kerr, J. Tarney, A. D. Saunders, J. G. Fitton and A. McBirney, 2003, Hf–Nd isotope constraints on the origin of the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau and its relationship to the Galápagos plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 217, 59-75.
• Thompson, P.M.E., P. D. Kempton, R. V. White, A. D. Saunders, A. C. Kerr, J. Tarney and M.S. Pringle. 2004. Elemental, Hf-Nd isotopic and geochronological constraints on an island arc sequence associated with the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau: Bonaire, Dutch Antilles. Lithos, 74, 91-116.
• Kerr, A.C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G.F., Nivia, A. and Saunders, A.D., 1997. The Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous igneous province: the internal anatomy of an oceanic plateau. In: Mahoney, J.J., and Coffin, M.F. (eds) Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic and Planetary Volcanism, American Geophysical Union Monograph 100, Washington D.C., 123-144.

• Emeishan
• Ontong Java Plateau
• Fitton, J.G., Mahoney, JJ., Wallace, P.J. and Saunders, A.D. (Editors) 2004. Origin and Evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau. Geological Society of London Special Publication 229, 374 pp.

• Rajmahal Traps and Ninetyeast Ridge
• Kent , R.W., Pringle, M.S., Müller, R.D., Saunders, A.D. , Ghose, N.C., 2002. 40Ar/ 39Ar geochronology of the Rajmahal basalts, India, and their relationship to the Kerguelen Plateau. Journal of Petrology, 43, 1141-1153.
• Kent, R.W., Saunders, A.D., Kempton, P.D., Ghose, N.C. 1997. Rajmahal basalts, Eastern India: mantle sources and melt distribution at a volcanic rifted margin. In: Mahoney, J.J., and Coffin, M.F. (eds) Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic and Planetary Volcanism, American Geophysical Union Monograph 100, Washington D.C., 145-182.

• Ocean Crust Processes
• Coogan, L.A., Kempton, P.D., Saunders, A.D. and Norry, M.J. 2000. Melt aggregation within the crust beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: evidence from plagioclase and clinopyroxene major and trace element compositions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 176, 245-257.
• Coogan, L.A., Saunders, A.D., Kempton, P.D., and Norry, M.J. 2000. Evidence from oceanic gabbros for porous nelt migration within a crystal mush beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 1, Paper number 2000GC000072. http://g-cubed.org/gc2000/2000GC000072/fs2000GC000072. html
  
• Other Settings and Systems
• Barry, T.L., Saunders, A.D., Kempton, P.D., Windley, B.F., Pringle, M.S., Dorjnamjaa, D., Saandar, S., 2003. Petrogenesis of Cenozoic basalts from Mongolia: evidence for the role of asthenospheric versus metasomatised lithospheric mantle sources. Journal of Petrology, 44, 55-91.
• Litvinovsky, B.L., Jahn, B.M., Zanvilevich, A.N., Saunders, A., Poulain, S., Kuzmin, D.V., Reichow, M.K. and Titov, A.V. 2002. Petrogenesis of syenite-granite suites from the Bryansky Complex ( Transbaikalia, Russia): implications for the origin of A-type granitoid magmas. Chemical Geology, 189, 105-133.
• Saunders, A.D., Norry, M.J. and Tarney, J.,1988. Origin of MORB: trace element constraints. In: Menzies, M.A. and Cox, K.G. (eds.) Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere: Similarities and Differences. J. Petrology Special Issue, 415-445. Download pdf.

Updated 7 March 2009