Mantle Plumes and Their Effects

• Main Authors: Choudhuri, Mainak (Author), Nemčok, Michal (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Structural geology.; Sedimentology.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Structural Geology.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This book presents a brief synopsis of the current academic understanding of the plume hypothesis, its surface manifestations and shortcomings. It describes methods for estimating the uplift history of a region due to plume activity. Different models for the elastic properties of the lithosphere and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Elastic properties of the lithosphere
• Plumes and hotspots
• Dynamic crustal uplift due to plume activity
• Permanent crustal uplift due to plume activity
• Effects of plume related thermal anomaly
• Morphology of hotspots
• The great plume debate.