Thursday, August 1, 2019
Geological Mystery Solved: Hotspots Move
The bend in the Hawaiian Islands was caused in part or whole by the hotspot moving, not the plate moving, and the pattern of mantle plumes dates back to the breakup of Pangea. Press release here, paper by Bono, Tarduno and Bunge here. (More on old volcanism in the Atlantic here.)
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