Mantle plumes crack continents | #Geology #GeologyPage In some - TopicsExpress



          

Mantle plumes crack continents | #Geology #GeologyPage In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of Earths core and the lower mantle to just below Earths crust hundreds of kilometres above. Halted by the resistance of the hard crust and lithospheric mantle, the flow of material becomes wider, taking on a mushroom-like shape. Specialists call these magma columns mantle plumes or simply plumes. Read more : geologypage/2014/09/mantle-plumes-crack-continents.html Geology Page geologypage
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:00:00 +0000

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