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Mantle Plumes and Their Effects

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The plume hypothesis (Morgan in Nature 230:42–43, 1971, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 56:203–213, 1972a, Geological Society of America Memoir 132:7–22, 1972b) has been developed during the 1970s to explain several intraplate volcanic provinces on the earth’s surface, apparently not explained by plate tectonics.

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    The pictures in this chapter are intended to bring some humor into this academic conundrum, and are not to be taken seriously.

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Choudhuri, M., Nemčok, M. (2017). The Great Plume Debate. In: Mantle Plumes and Their Effects. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44239-6_7

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