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Mantle plumes persevere
Koppers, A.A.P. (2011). Mantle plumes persevere. Nature Geoscience 4(12): 816-817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1334
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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Keywords
    Motion > Fluid motion > Fluid flow > Plumes > Mantle plumes
    Topographic features > Submarine features > Seamounts
    Volcanoes
    Marine/Coastal
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  • Koppers, A.A.P.
Abstract
    The ocean floor is littered with hundreds of thousands of mostly extinct volcanoes. The origin of at least some of these seamounts seems to rest with mantle plumes.
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