Looking for mantle plumes

Eugene Humphreys; Brandon Schmandt

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Looking for mantle plumes

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Aug 2011 English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:Physics Today, volume 64, pages 34-39 (issn: 0031-9228, eissn: 1945-0699,

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Authors: Eugene Humphreys; Brandon Schmandt;

doi: 10.1063/pt.3.1217

Looking for mantle plumes

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Seismic images of Earth’s interior offer evidence that hot columns of buoyant rock from deep in the mantle are the source of the volcanism at Yellowstone and similar hot spots. Yet mysteries remain.

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