X-rays shed light on volcano hotspot origins

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 14:30 in Earth & Climate

The world's most brilliant beam of X-rays now suggests that volcanic hotspots may indeed be caused by giant plumes of hot rock streaming upward from near the Earth's core, as volcano researchers have long suspected.

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