Stability of active mantle upwelling revealed by net characteristics of plate tectonics

Clinton P. Conrad (), Bernhard Steinberger and Trond H. Torsvik
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Clinton P. Conrad: SOEST, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Bernhard Steinberger: Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Trond H. Torsvik: Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway

Nature, 2013, vol. 498, issue 7455, 479-482

Abstract: Global-scale mantle flow patterns can be deduced from the net behaviour (convergence and divergence) of surface plate motions; persistent quadrupole divergence in central Africa and the central Pacific suggest sustained stationary upwelling beneath these locations in the mantle.

Date: 2013
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