Spreading ridge migration enabled by plume-ridge de-anchoring
Numerical modelling shows that high-buoyancy mantle plumes can capture and de-anchor spreading ridges, enabling their migration over vast distances.
Rebecca Carey
Associate Professor
Rebecca Carey investigates subaerial and submarine volcanic eruptions, with particular interest in how water depth influences eruption explosivity.
Unravelling the origins of volcanism along Eastern Australia and the Tasman Sea
Mantle plumes are buoyant upwellings rising from the Earth’s core-mantle boundary to its surface, generating hotspot chains that track the direction of plate motion. Eastern …
Slab-induced plume branching connects parallel hotspot chains
We propose that slab-induced plume branching can explain the formation of parallel hotspot chains observed in the oceanic and continental record. Using plate tectonic …
DP20
Eruption and disuption: how Earth's deep interior and surface communicate
