Hawaiian hotspot variability attributed to small-scale convection

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 12:31 in Earth & Climate

Small scale convection at the base of the Pacific plate has been simulated in a model of mantle plume dynamics, enabling reasearchers to explain the complex set of observations at the Hawaiian hotspot, according to a new study posted online in the June 26th edition of Nature Geoscience.

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