Mantle Plumes and Their Effects
This book presents a brief synopsis of the current academic understanding of the plume hypothesis, its surface manifestations and shortcomings. It describes methods for estimating the uplift history of a region due to plume activity. Different models for
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Mainak Choudhuri Michal Nemčok
Mantle Plumes and Their Effects
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SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences Series editors Gerrit Lohmann, Bremen, Germany Lawrence A. Mysak, Montreal, Canada Justus Notholt, Bremen, Germany Jorge Rabassa, Ushuaia, Argentina Vikram Unnithan, Bremen, Germany
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Mainak Choudhuri Michal Nemčok •
Mantle Plumes and Their Effects
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Mainak Choudhuri Petroleum E & P Reliance Industries Limited Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Michal Nemčok Energy and Geoscience Institute University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT USA and EGI Laboratory at SAV Bratislava Slovakia
ISSN 2191-589X ISSN 2191-5903 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences ISBN 978-3-319-44238-9 ISBN 978-3-319-44239-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44239-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947195 © The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
To my wife, who helped me to finish this book quickly
Preface
This book attempts to collect the information that has been gathered from the literature survey during the preparation of a doctoral thesis and constitutes the theoretical background for it. Plumes are hot, buoyant upwellings from the mantle that reach the base of the lithosphere, producing regions of excess volcanism on the surface, known as hot spots. The presence of a plume is debated hotly in the literature. But a hot spot is an unambiguous feature on the surface of the Earth. In this book, we have tried to describe the observable features on the crust that has been ascribed due to the presence of a plume. The surface elevations surrounding a hot spot have been explained by the presence of a plume head below the lithosphere. It results in a broad swell and uplift of the crust above the plume head, with a moat-like depressio
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