The mantle's lava lamp

Marcia McNutt ()
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Marcia McNutt: the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6763, 739-740

Abstract: Studies of phenomena called hotspots and superswells, evident at Earth's surface, offer the best clues as to the dynamic state of the underlying mantle. Their essential features have for the first time been reproduced in laboratory simulations of mantle convection scaled to Earth-like conditions.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/45416

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