A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...
Scientists have known since the 1960s that mantle plumes stay in place for a very long time while the Earth's plates move over them. Every time the plate shifts a bit, the mantle plume produces a ...
This is a 3D view of the top 1,000 kilometers of the earth's mantle beneath the central Pacific showing the relationship between seismically-slow "plumes" and channels imaged in the study.
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The 3-D illustration shows the so-called mantle plume feeding the super volcano which forced the plates apart. The arrows indicate the different movements. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!
When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere ... Crust and lithospheric mantle—the thinnest and thickest layers of the Earth's lithosphere—and a wide range of dynamic processes ...