Hot heads and cold tails

Nicholas Arndt ()
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Nicholas Arndt: Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines, Université Joseph Fourier

Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6803, 459-461

Abstract: Upwellings of hot material, known as mantle plumes, are responsible for violent volcanic eruptions on the Earth's surface that leave behind thick piles of lava. The temperature of these plumes has been long debated, but a new clue comes from the discovery of unusually primitive olivine in volcanic rocks.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35035176

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