Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History provides a timely and comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. The book describes the new and exciting results of the last few years, and integrates an immense amount of material from the fields of geology, geophysics, and geochemistry that bear on mantle plumes. Included are chapters on hotspots and mantle upwelling, large igneous provinces (including examples from Mars and Venus), mantle plume generation and melting in plumes, plumes as tracers of mantle processes, plumes and continental growth, Archean mantle plumes, superplumes, mantle plume events in Earth history, and their effect on the atmosphere, oceans, and life.
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'This book provides a good précis of current arguments, it is provocative in the topics linked together and it is an excellent basis for further discussion in a fast moving field.' Chris J. Hawkesworth, Geoscientist
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Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History provides a timely and comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. The book describes the new and exciting results of the last few years, and integrates an immense amount of material from the fields of geology, geophysics, and geochemistry. It will be valuable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the Earth sciences, and will also form a reference text for researchers from a variety of disciplines.
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A mantle plume is generally considered to be a blob of relatively hot, low-density mantle that rises because of its buoyancy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accreted oceanic plateaus, superplume event, small mantle plumes, modern hotspots, oceanic plateau basalts, many flood basalts, incompatible element distributions, juvenile continental crust, plume magmatism, plume viscosity, giant dyke swarms, mantle plume events, juvenile crust, mantle plume source, depleted mantle reservoir, melt production rate, radiating dyke swarms, supercontinent breakup, subcontinental lithosphere, flood basalt genesis, large mantle plumes, mantle plume model, mantle plume origin, supercontinent formation, supercontinent fragmentation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ontong Java, Late Archean, Columbia River, North Atlantic, South Pacific, South Atlantic, Bushveld Complex, South America, North America, Early Archean, American Geophysical Union, South Africa, Ninetyeast Ridge, American Cordillera, East Africa, Superior Province, Bridge River, British Columbia, United States, Weddell Sea, Broken Ridge, Early Tertiary, East Pacific Rise, Elsevier Science, New Zealand New!
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A mantle plume is generally considered to be a blob of relatively hot, low-density mantle that rises because of its buoyancy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accreted oceanic plateaus, superplume event, small mantle plumes, modern hotspots, oceanic plateau basalts, many flood basalts, incompatible element distributions, juvenile continental crust, plume magmatism, plume viscosity, giant dyke swarms, mantle plume events, juvenile crust, mantle plume source, depleted mantle reservoir, melt production rate, radiating dyke swarms, supercontinent breakup, subcontinental lithosphere, flood basalt genesis, large mantle plumes, mantle plume model, mantle plume origin, supercontinent formation, supercontinent fragmentation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ontong Java, Late Archean, Columbia River, North Atlantic, South Pacific, South Atlantic, Bushveld Complex, South America, North America, Early Archean, American Geophysical Union, South Africa, Ninetyeast Ridge, American Cordillera, East Africa, Superior Province, Bridge River, British Columbia, United States, Weddell Sea, Broken Ridge, Early Tertiary, East Pacific Rise, Elsevier Science, New Zealand New!
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- New Mexico (America the Beautiful, Second) by Deborah Kent in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Continental Mantle (Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics) by Martin A. Menzies in Back Matter
- Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks by Robert B. Smith on page 32
- How Many? (Photo Board Books) by Moira Butterfield in Back Matter
- Archean Crustal Evolution (Developments in Precambrian Geology) by K.C. Condie in Front Matter
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- Earth as an Evolving Planetary System by Kent C. Condie on 4 pages
- Geochemistry: An Introduction by Francis Albarède in Back Matter
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