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• Main Authors: Olivier Bourgeois, Olivier Dauteuil, Erwan Hallot
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Iceland Plateau; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.551.8410; http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Bourgeois2005.pdf

The interaction of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the North Atlantic Mantle Plume has produced a magmatic plateau centred about Iceland. The crust of this plateau is 30 km thick on average. This abnormal thickness implies that, unlike other slow-spreading ridges, addition of magmatic material to the cr...