| Type |
Article |
| Date |
2013-06 |
| Language |
English |
| Author(s) |
Barruol Guilhem1, Sigloch Karin2 |
| Affiliation(s) |
1 : GéoSciences Réunion, Université de La Réunion, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Saint Denis de La Réunion, France
2 : Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig- Maximilians- Universität München, Munich, Germany |
| Source |
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union (00963941) (Wiley-Blackwell), 2013-06 , Vol. 94 , N. 23 , P. 205-207 |
| DOI |
10.1002/2013EO230002 |
| Abstract |
Whether volcanic intraplate hot spots are underlain by deep mantle plumes continues to be debated 40 years after the hypothesis was proposed by Morgan [1972]. Arrivals of buoyant plume heads may have been among the most disruptive agents in Earth's history, initiating continental breakup, altering global climate, and triggering mass extinctions. Further, with the temporary shutdown of European air traffic in 2010 caused by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, a geologically routine eruption in the tail end of the presumed Iceland plume, the world witnessed an intrusion of hot spot activity into modern-day life. |
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