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Mantle Plumes A Multidisciplinary Approach /

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ritter, Joachim R. R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Christensen, U.R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Subjects:
Geophysics.
Inorganic chemistry.
Geology.
Mathematical physics.
Geophysics/Geodesy.
Inorganic Chemistry.
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68046-8

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