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Volcanic eruptions provide routes for material deep beneath Earth's surface to escape to the surface. They also allow a world to vent its heat. Active volcanoes on Earth, Io, and Venus are fed by subsurface molten rock. On Earth, the lava comes up from the mantle (which is the layer un...
plume-lithosphere-interaction and mantleconvection models do not rely on the operation of existing plate tectonics and thus may be capable of explaining the first SI.Reinvestigation of plate-driving mechanisms reveals that mantle drag may be the missing driving force for surface plates,capable of ...
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High iridium levels are normally accepted as diagnostic for asteroid impacts due to iridium’s low abundance in Earth’s crust, but very high iridium levels have been measured in vents of hot-spot volcanoes in theIndian OceanandHawaii. Hot-spot volcanoes have the same mantle-plume origins as ...
Stage C– the ocean basin widens, sometimes to thousands of miles; this is comparable to the Atlantic ocean today. As long as the ocean basin is opening we are still in the opening phase of the Wilson cycle. Stage D– the closing phase of the Wilson Cycle begins when a subduction zone...