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Simulations And Ancient Magnetism Suggest Mantle Plumes May Bend Deep Beneath...

Published on Monday, 6 April 2009 17:00 from ScienceDaily

New computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once thought to remain firmly fixed in place, in fact move beneath Earth's crust.

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