Mantle plumes travel from the core of Earth to the crust.
the verdict
SUPPORTED
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Mantle plumes are buoyant upwellings of hot rock that originate deep within Earth's mantle near the core-mantle boundary and travel upward toward the crust, feeding intraplate volcanism and large igneous provinces.
Evidence for · 4
Imaging the Galápagos mantle plume with an unconventional application of floating seismometers.
2019 · cited by 5
Seismic imaging reveals that the Galápagos Archipelago is underlain by a deep plume originating around 1900 km depth.
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More for · 3
Two deep-mantle sources for Paleocene doming and volcanism in the North Atlantic.
2019 · cited by 2
Time-reversed global convection modeling identifies deep-mantle low-density plumes originating under the North Atlantic.
Bilateral Loa-Kea trends of the Hawaiian Islands caused by the bottom-up splitting of plume conduit.
2026 · cited by 0
Global mantle convection models show that mantle plumes originate from ridges of large low-velocity provinces near the core-mantle boundary and propagate upward.
Seismic and mineralogical evidence for an iron-rich mega-ultralow-velocity zone beneath Hawai'i.
2026 · cited by 0
Seismic and mineralogical analyses indicate that mantle plumes beneath major oceanic hot spots like Hawai'i are rooted near the core-mantle boundary.