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unusual facts about Mantle plume


Volcanic plume

Mantle plume, or volcanic plume, an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, which can cause volcanic hotspots


Don L. Anderson

Another of his hypotheses is that the theory of convective mantle plumes in the Earth, as proposed by W. Jason Morgan, is invalid and that hotspots and oceanic islands such as Hawaii or Iceland are rather caused by chemical/mineralogical anomalies in the upper mantle.


see also

OIB

Ocean island basalt, mainly alkaline mantle plume generated intra-plate basalts