CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots
Scans prove that plumes of hot rock anchored at core-mantle boundary rise to form island chains
04-Sep-2015 -
Seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth's interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.
Essentially a computed tomography, ...
computed tomography
geology