By analyzing the travel times and paths of seismic waves, scientists can map structures in the mantle, such as mantle plumes and ponding zones — all key to understanding hotspot dynamics.

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Hotspots are plumes of hot material that rise from the mantle, Earth's middle layer. When hotspots interact with the crust, they can create volcanoes, such as the Hawaiian Islands.

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A new study has found that 40 million years ago a hotspot softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that has recently come to fool scientists trying to gauge ice loss in the area. So ...

Hot mantle plumes rise from the tops of the basal mantle structures to Earth’s surface, where they appear as hotspots. Arrows represent mantle convection currents. (Adapted from Fig. 2d of ref. 11.) ...

The study examined hotspot lavas, which come from plumes that billow upward from Earth's deep mantle and erupt at volcanoes at the planet's surface. Samoa, Hawaii and Iceland are all hotspots.

We still have a lot to figure out about how mantle hotspot plumes work, but we do know that the Hawaii and Louisville plumes go all the way down to the deepest part of the Earth’s mantle.

In geology, a hotspot is a location on the Earth's surface that has experienced active volcanism for a long period of time. Hotspots were thought to be caused by a narrow stream of hot mantle ...

In contrast, it is basalt—a more runny and iron/magnesium rich magma type—that wells up from the mantle via the Yellowstone hotspot. Read more. Which traditional flu remedies work?

The Réunion Hotspot and Upper Mantle-Réunions Unterer Mantel (RHUM-RUM) project aims to image the crust and mantle under Réunion at all depths for the biggest plume hunt so far.