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Mantle Plumes
. Ed(S): Ritter, Joachim R. R.; Christensen, U.R.
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Description for Mantle Plumes
Paperback. Editor(s): Ritter, Joachim R. R.; Christensen, U.R. Num Pages: 502 pages, 126 black & white illustrations, 31 colour illustrations, 12 black & white tables, biogra. BIC Classification: RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 777.
The concept of mantle plumes, originally suggested by Morgan (1971), is widely but not unequivocally accepted as the cause for hotspot volcanism. Plumes are thought of as deep-rooted, approximately cylindrical regions of hot rising mantle rock with a typical diameter of 100-200 km. Pressure-release melting near the b- tom of the lithosphere produces magmas that rise to the surface and lead, when the plate moves relative to the plume, to a chain of volcanic edifices whose age p- gresses with increasing distance from the plume. For a long time, the evidence for mantle plumes has been largely circumstantial. Laboratory and ... Read more
The concept of mantle plumes, originally suggested by Morgan (1971), is widely but not unequivocally accepted as the cause for hotspot volcanism. Plumes are thought of as deep-rooted, approximately cylindrical regions of hot rising mantle rock with a typical diameter of 100-200 km. Pressure-release melting near the b- tom of the lithosphere produces magmas that rise to the surface and lead, when the plate moves relative to the plume, to a chain of volcanic edifices whose age p- gresses with increasing distance from the plume. For a long time, the evidence for mantle plumes has been largely circumstantial. Laboratory and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
502
Condition
New
Number of Pages
502
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642087714
SKU
V9783642087714
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About . Ed(S): Ritter, Joachim R. R.; Christensen, U.R.
Joachim R. R. Ritter is an expert in seismological experiments and seismic tomography. He has conducted research at volcanic fields in East Africa, California and Central Europe to reveal the deep roots of the magmatic processes. He is working at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Karlsruhe. Ulrich R. Christensen is a director at the Max Planck Institute ... Read more
Reviews for Mantle Plumes
From the reviews: "This book, with 16 chapters and color plates, covers a diversity of topics dealing with the recognition and characterization of mantle plumes. … There is a wide range in the depth of coverage and quality of the papers in the book. Some chapters are review papers and some are papers presenting new ... Read more