Volcanology: Petit spots go big

Nature Geoscience 9, 862 (2016). doi:10.1038/ngeo2839

Author: Jonathan E. Snow

Mantle enrichment processes were thought to be limited to parts of oceanic plates influenced by plumes and to continental interiors. Analyses of mantle fragments of the Pacific Plate suggest that such enrichment processes may operate everywhere.


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