Mantle Plumes A Multidisciplinary Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ritter, Joachim R. R. (Editor), Christensen, Ulrich R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Inorganic chemistry.; Geology.; Geophysics.; Physics.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

The concept of mantle plumes, originally suggested by Morgan (1971), is widely but not unequivocally accepted as the cause for hotspot volcanism. Plumes are thought of as deep-rooted, approximately cylindrical regions of hot rising mantle rock with a typical diameter of 100-200 km. Pressure-release...