Magma Plumes In The Earth's Interior Crack Continents

Researchers say that magma columns in the Earth's interior can cause continental breakup – under the right circumstances.In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of the Earth's core and the lower mantle to just below the Earth's crust hundreds of kilometers above. Halted by the resistance of the hard crust and lithospheric mantle, the flow of material becomes wider, taking on a mushroom-like shape. Specialists call these magma columns mantle plumes or simply plumes. read more

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