December 14, 2015
What lies below?
Technological advances continue to improve the resolution of our view of Earth’s interior, but disagreement remains over what we’re viewing. In a …
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December 14, 2015
The question of mantle plumes
In 1963, J. Tuzo Wilson first proposed that volcanic chains like the Hawaiian Islands form when a tectonic plate drifts over a “hot spot” in the …