Neon signs mark Australian plume

Bernard Marty
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Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6638, 127-129

Abstract: Mantle plumes are huge, rising columns of warm rock which cause magma to erupt above them, creating volcanic island chains, such as Hawaii, and continental flood basalts. Detecting their chemical signature is tricky, because the lavas they produce are modified in rising to the surface. But a new geochemical tool, the neon isotope system, may be revealing preserved plume signals in Australian rocks less than two million years old.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/40524

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