Research report 2004 - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Anatomy of a mantle plume
Authors
Hofmann, Albrecht W.; Sobolev, Alexander; Abouchami, Wafa; Galer, Stephen J.
Departments
Summary
Researchers of the Geochemistry Department developed a new model of melt production in a mantle plume to explain the enormous magma production of Hawaiian volcanoes. They also showed that the Hawaiian mantle plume is compositionally not purely concentric, but consists of two isotopically different halves.