我国东部新生代玄武岩出露广泛,它们是西太平洋沿岸玄武岩带的重要组成部分。自本世纪初,我国地质学家就开始对它进行研究。近十余年来,随着1/20万区域地质调查的进行和上地幔基础地质理论研究的开展,各地质单位积累了大量有关玄武岩的资料。为总结已经取得的成果和推动今后玄武岩研究的开展,中国矿物岩石地球化学学会 The Cenozoic basalts in eastern China have been exposed extensively, and they are an important part of the basalt belt along the western Pacific coast. Since the beginning of this century, our geologists began to study it. In the past ten years or so, with the progress of 1 / 200,000 regional geological survey and the research on the basic geological theory of the upper mantle, a great deal of information about basalt has been accumulated in various geologic units. In order to summarize the achievements made and to promote the future basalt research, the Chinese Society of Mineralogy and Petrology