Imaging the pulsing Iceland mantle plume through the Eocene

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Parkin, C. J., Lunnon, Z. C., White, R. S., Christie, P. A. F., Team, iSimm
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; Norwegian Sea; Reykjanes; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/578/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/578/1/Parkin_Lunnon_White_Christie_Geology_35%282007%29.pdf

The temperature of mantle plumes may vary on geologic time scales, from a few million years to tens of millions of years. In special circumstances such as near Iceland in the North Atlantic, where the plume underlies an oceanic spreading center, temporal variations in the oceanic crustal thickness p...