The method works similarly to a CT scan of the human body. A schematic diagram showing the main tectonic features and mantle plumes beneath Greenland and the surrounding regions. Vp = P wave ...

A diagram shows Easter Island's tectonic context. The researchers believe the volcanoes that created the island included some ancient material from the mantle plume. A diagram shows Easter Island ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

Mantle plumes are columns of unusually hot rock which rise to the Earth's surface from the boundary between the core and mantle, 2,900 km below ground. They fuel volcanic activity wherever they ...

Now, a new study says the volcanic activity at the park could be driven by what's called a "mantle plume," — a 200-mile-wide column of potentially warm, upwelling material — that rises from ...

Languages; English. You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing [email protected] A mantle plume producing almost as much heat as Yellowstone supervolcano appears to be melting part of West ...

The plateau effectively capped the plume for 30 million years, suppressing mantle melting, halting the creation of new volcanic structures, and resulting in the 30-million-year gap in the Samoan ...

A recent study suggests that a five-fingered mantle plume emanating out of Iceland could be responsible for Scotland and part of Norway sitting above sea level. Nae man can tether time or tide.- ...

Orbital observations unveil the presence of an enormous mantle plume pushing the surface of Mars upward and driving intense volcanic and seismic activity. The discovery reveals that Mars ...

A new study suggests that instead of a plume of hot mantle that extends down to Earth’s core, the real culprit is a subducting tectonic plate that began sinking beneath North America hundreds of ...