Scientists have known since the 1960s that mantle plumes stay in place for a very long time while the Earth's plates move ...

The plateau effectively capped the plume for 30 million years, suppressing mantle melting, halting the creation of new volcanic structures, and resulting in the 30-million-year gap in the Samoan ...

This is a 3D view of the top 1,000 kilometers of the earth's mantle beneath the central Pacific showing the relationship between seismically-slow "plumes" and channels imaged in the study.

In a study published in Science China Earth Sciences, research teams from China collaboratively reconstructed the tectonic ...

Mantle convection is the process underlying plate tectonics ... As a general rattle of plates and a dance of plumes, the book has much to be enjoyed.' Euan Nisbet, University of London '… an excellent ...