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Large igneous province, an Uncommon card
A large igneous province is an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, including intrusive and extrusive, arising when magma travels through the crust towards the surface.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Large igneous province quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Large igneous province card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
LIPs are fundamentally different from any other currently active ______ or volcanic systems.
Answer
volcanoes. LIPs are fundamentally different from any other currently active volcanoes or volcanic systems. From the Large igneous province article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Dendrochronology. Dendrochronology 80,000 · Large igneous province 50,000 · Bottom trawling 27,000 · Grus 18,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The formation of LIPs is variously attributed to mantle plumes or to processes associated with divergent plate tectonics.
- The formation of some of the LIPs in the past 500 million years coincide in time with mass extinctions and rapid climatic changes, which has led to numerous hypotheses about causal relationships.
- LIPs are fundamentally different from any other currently active volcanoes or volcanic systems.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Large igneous province article was read about 50,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Large igneous province
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Large igneous province (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Williamborg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
