Which of the following is not true about flood basalts?
A) They cover large areas and contain huge volumes of magma.
B) They cover much of the Columbia Plateau of the Pacific Northwest.
C) They are fed from large interconnected composite volcanoes.
D) Some flood basalts erupted at about the same time as major extinctions of species.
C) They are fed from large interconnected composite volcanoes.
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