The plateau effectively capped the plume for 30 million years, suppressing mantle melting, halting the creation of new ...

作者概述了翁通爪哇高原抑制或转移萨摩亚柱岩浆的情景，认为地幔熔融很可能在很大程度上受到抑制，尽管马莱塔熔岩可能是一个例外。他们说，这项新研究确定了一种以前未知的地质过程，称为“地幔柱-高原”相互作用，充实了以前关于热点历史的理论。作者在其他地方也发现 ...

This is a 3D view of the top 1,000 kilometers of the earth's mantle beneath the central Pacific showing the relationship between seismically-slow "plumes" and channels imaged in the study.

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 2,896 kilometers (1,800 miles) below the planet's crust, about halfway to the center of the Earth, two giant blobs can ...