Plate-Plume Interaction

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Plume-slab interaction

Exploring the interaction between mantle plumes and subducting slabs in the Tasman Sea region, focusing on the three parallel hotspot tracks — Tasmantid, Lord Howe, and Cosgrove — …

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Dr. Ben Mather
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Parallel volcanic chains generated by plume-slab interaction (invited)

Deep mantle plumes are buoyant upwellings rising from the Earth’s core-mantle boundary to its surface, and describing most hotspot chains. Mechanisms to explain dual chains of …

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Dr. Ben Mather
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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 …

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Dr. Ben Mather

Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux

Long-lived, widespread intraplate volcanism without age progression is one of the most controversial features of plate tectonics. The eastern margin of Australia and Zealandia has …

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Dr. Ben Mather
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DP20

Eruption and disuption: how Earth's deep interior and surface communicate

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Maria Seton