Geodynamics: Surface impact of mantle processes
Abstract
Dynamic motions in Earth's mantle can be expressed at the surface. Rocks and landscapes beneath the North Atlantic Ocean record surface uplift driven by pulses of hot material upwelling in a mantle plume beneath Iceland.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- August 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1038/ngeo1216
- Bibcode:
- 2011NatGe...4..498A