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Two Giant Geological Blobs Lurk Under Africa And The Pacific, Still Defying Explanation
Some 2,896 kilometers (1,800 miles) below the planet's crust, about halfway to the center of the Earth, two giant blobs can ...
Tracking a disappearing mantle plume in ancient Samoa: Researchers shed light on a 30-million-year gap
The plateau effectively capped the plume for 30 million years, suppressing mantle melting, halting the creation of new ...
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Unveiling hydrocarbon formation and accumulation in the North Sea Basin through a new perspective of multi-spheric interaction
In a study published in Science China Earth Sciences, research teams from China collaboratively reconstructed the tectonic ...
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Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is
NASA’s newest research effort has demonstrated that the reason for this odd behavior is likely to be an incredibly hot mantle plume deep under the surface. A mantle plume, which is an area where ...
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Seismic Support for Mantle Plume Beneath Hawaii (6 of 8) (IMAGE)
This is a photograph from one of the PLUME research cruises ... and colleagues, was titled, "Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot." ...
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Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection
Mantle convection is the process underlying plate tectonics ... As a general rattle of plates and a dance of plumes, the book has much to be enjoyed.' Euan Nisbet, University of London '… an excellent ...