New Zealand sits on top of the remains of a giant ancient volcanic plume
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 07:30
in Earth & Climate
Back in the 1970s, scientists came up with a revolutionary idea about how Earth's deep interior works. They proposed it is slowly churning like a lava lamp, with buoyant blobs rising as plumes of hot mantle rock from near Earth's core, where rocks are so hot they move like a fluid.