The strength of the Iceland plume: A geodynamical scaling approach

International audience An important measure of the strength of a mantle plume is its buoyancy flux B, defined as the integral over a horizontal plane of the product of the vertical velocity and the density deficit within the plume. In the case of the Iceland plume, which currently rises directly ben...

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Published in:Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Main Authors: Ribe, Neil M., Tackley, Paul, Sanan, Patrick
Other Authors: Fluides, automatique, systèmes thermiques (FAST), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2020
Subjects:
[PHYS.MECA.MEFL]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph]
Iceland
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03296884
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03296884/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03296884/file/ribe_etal_EPSL2020.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116570
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Summary:International audience An important measure of the strength of a mantle plume is its buoyancy flux B, defined as the integral over a horizontal plane of the product of the vertical velocity and the density deficit within the plume. In the case of the Iceland plume, which currently rises directly beneath the mid-Atlantic

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