The Evolution of the Galapagos Mantle Plume: From Large Igneous Province to Ocean Island Basalt
Mantle plumes are anomalously hot, narrow upwellings of mantle material that originate at the core-mantle boundary. As plumes rise they may form volumetrically large "heads" (~1000 km in diameter) with narrower (~100 km) "tails." Plume head melting is thought to form Large Igneou...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77438 |