Trendy volcanism tied to occasions occurring quickly after Earth’s start

Plumes of sizzling magma from the volcanic hotspot that fashioned Réunion Island within the Indian Ocean rise from an unusually primitive supply deep beneath the Earth’s floor. The mantle differentiation occasion preserved in these hotspot plumes can each train scientists about early Earth geochemical processes and clarify the mysterious seismic signatures created by dense deep-mantle zones.
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