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  2. Mantle plume - Wikipedia

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    However, paleomagnetic data show that mantle plumes can also be associated with Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs) [7] [8] and do move relative to each other. [9] The current mantle plume theory is that material and energy from Earth's interior are exchanged with the surface crust in two distinct and largely independent convective flows:

  3. Large low-shear-velocity provinces - Wikipedia

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    The resulting motion forms small clusters of small plumes right above the core-mantle boundary that combine to form larger plumes and then contribute to superplumes. The Pacific and African LLSVP, in this scenario, are originally created by a discharge of heat from the core (4000 K) to the much colder mantle (2000 K); the recycled lithosphere ...

  4. Plume tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Plume tectonics is a geoscientific theory that finds its roots in the mantle doming concept which was especially popular during the 1930s and initially did not accept major plate movements and continental drifting. It has survived from the 1970s until today in various forms and presentations.

  5. Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They ...

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    Separating the planet’s rocky crust and the molten outer core, the mantle makes up 70 percent of the Earth’s mass and 84 percent of its volume. But despite its outsized influence on the planet ...

  6. Earth's mantle - Wikipedia

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    The internal structure of Earth. Earth's mantle is a layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core. It has a mass of 4.01 × 10 24 kg (8.84 × 10 24 lb) and makes up 67% of the mass of Earth. [1] It has a thickness of 2,900 kilometers (1,800 mi) [1] making up about 46% of Earth's radius and 84% of Earth's volume.

  7. After 60 Years of Trying, Geologists Finally Pried Rocks From ...

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    After 60 years of trying, geologists finally pried rocks from Earth's upper mantle. That's huge for so many reasons.

  8. Research team to explore depths of Earth's mantle - AOL

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    A professor at Delaware State University, Dr. Gabriel Gwanmesia, received a $672,000 grant to study the minerals in the Earth's mantle, hundreds of miles beneath the surface, and he recently ...

  9. Large igneous province - Wikipedia

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    Earth has an outer shell made of discrete, moving tectonic plates floating on a solid convective mantle above a liquid core. The mantle's flow is driven by the descent of cold tectonic plates during subduction and the complementary ascent of mantle plumes of hot material from lower levels. The surface of the Earth reflects stretching ...