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What is the surface feature above a mantle plume called?
The surface feature above the mantle plume is known as the "hotspot".
A very long lived magma source located deep in the mantle is called?
The term hot spot is used to describe a very long-lived magma source located deep in the mantle. J. Tuzo Wilson is credited with having originated the concept of hot spots.
How can one mantle plume form several volcanic islands?
Mantle plumes appear to remain nearly stationary. However, the lithospheric plate above a mantle plume continues to drift slowly. So, the volcano on the surface is eventually carried away from the mantle plume. The activity of the volcano stops because it has moved away from the hot spot that supplied it with magma. A new volcano forms, however, at the point on the plate's surface that is now over the mantle plume. Some mantle plumes are long and linear. As magma generated by these plumes rises through cracks in Earth's crust, a line of hotspot volcanoes forms. Unlike volcanoes that form individually as a plate moves over a mantle plume, hot-spot volcanoes that form in lines over a long plume do not have any particular age relationship to each another.Mantle plumes appear to remain nearly stationary. However, the lithospheric plate above a mantle plume continues to drift slowly. So, the volcano on the surface is eventually carried away from the mantle plume. The activity of the volcano stops because it has moved away from the hot spot that supplied it with magma. A new volcano forms, however, at the point on the plate's surface that is now over the mantle plume. Some mantle plumes are long and linear. As magma generated by these plumes rises through cracks in Earth's crust, a line of hotspot volcanoes forms. Unlike volcanoes that form individually as a plate moves over a mantle plume, hot-spot volcanoes that form in lines over a long plume do not have any particular age relationship to each another.
What is mantle plume?
A mantle plume is a rising mass of extra hot mantle rock. Mantle plumes are though to be the cause of volcanic activity away from plate boundaries.
When volcanic island chain are formed what moves?
The mantle plume
What is the surface feature above a mantle plume called?
The surface feature above the mantle plume is known as the "hotspot".
Plume of heat from a fixed location beneath the earths surface?
hot spot- place of very high temperatures in the upper mantle that reaches the surface as a PLUME of extra ordinarily high heat. dr. lyons class
A mantle plume extended up to the surface where There is?
Hot Spot
What is a surface expression of a plume of magma rising from a stationary source of heat in the mantle?
A hotspot volcano.
A mantle plume extends up to the surface where there is a what?
hot spot
A very long lived magma source located deep in the mantle is called?
The term hot spot is used to describe a very long-lived magma source located deep in the mantle. J. Tuzo Wilson is credited with having originated the concept of hot spots.
How can one mantle plume form several volcanic islands?
Mantle plumes appear to remain nearly stationary. However, the lithospheric plate above a mantle plume continues to drift slowly. So, the volcano on the surface is eventually carried away from the mantle plume. The activity of the volcano stops because it has moved away from the hot spot that supplied it with magma. A new volcano forms, however, at the point on the plate's surface that is now over the mantle plume. Some mantle plumes are long and linear. As magma generated by these plumes rises through cracks in Earth's crust, a line of hotspot volcanoes forms. Unlike volcanoes that form individually as a plate moves over a mantle plume, hot-spot volcanoes that form in lines over a long plume do not have any particular age relationship to each another.Mantle plumes appear to remain nearly stationary. However, the lithospheric plate above a mantle plume continues to drift slowly. So, the volcano on the surface is eventually carried away from the mantle plume. The activity of the volcano stops because it has moved away from the hot spot that supplied it with magma. A new volcano forms, however, at the point on the plate's surface that is now over the mantle plume. Some mantle plumes are long and linear. As magma generated by these plumes rises through cracks in Earth's crust, a line of hotspot volcanoes forms. Unlike volcanoes that form individually as a plate moves over a mantle plume, hot-spot volcanoes that form in lines over a long plume do not have any particular age relationship to each another.
What is mantle plume?
A mantle plume is a rising mass of extra hot mantle rock. Mantle plumes are though to be the cause of volcanic activity away from plate boundaries.
How did the Hawaiian chain island form?
The Hawaiian Island chain formed from a mantle plume and moving plates. The rising mantle plume causes crustal material to melt at depth, which results in volcanism and finally in the formation of a volcanic island. Since the Pacific Plate is in continuous (although slow) movement, the same mantle plume will cause volcanism subsequently in different places and this is expressed at the surface as a chain of volcanoes or volcanic islands.
What is a volcanic area on a plate where plume of mantle material rises?
Mantle plum
What forms to a mantle plume?
Mantle plumes result in the formation of hot spots.
What is a hot plume of mantle material which may extend to the core mantle boundary produces a?
A hot plume of mantle material, which may extend to extend to the core-mantle boundary, produces a(n) a volcanic region a few hundred kilometers across
