Laboratory-Scale Simulation of Spiral Plumes in the Mantle

Laboratory-Scale Simulation of Spiral Plumes in the Mantle

On the basis of laboratory simulation a mechanism is established for the formation of the upper mantle convection spiral plumes from a hot point in the presence of a roll-type large-scale convective flow. The observed plume has horizontal sections near the upper limit, which may lead to the formatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2012-07
Hauptverfasser: Sharifulin, A N, Poludnitsin, A N
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Sprache:eng
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Convection
Convective flow
Earth mantle
Laboratories
Plumes
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Zusammenfassung:On the basis of laboratory simulation a mechanism is established for the formation of the upper mantle convection spiral plumes from a hot point in the presence of a roll-type large-scale convective flow. The observed plume has horizontal sections near the upper limit, which may lead to the formation of chains of volcanic islands.
ISSN:2331-8422