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Ask a Geologist:Plumes and Plates
By: Val Finlayson
© Johan Swanepoel
About MeVal Finlayson● Most of the time: Isotope geochemist! Also:
cyclist, tinkerer (coding, paint, things that move), occasional musician
● PhD 2017, U. of Hawai’i-Mānoa, currently a postdoc researcher at U. of Maryland
● Favorite volcanoes: Lōihi, Arago Seamount
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Plates
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Source: globalchange.umich.edu
● “Plates” of crustal rock on Earth’s surface
● Continents, ocean basins
Plates
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Source: globalchange.umich.edu
● “Plates” of crustal rock on Earth’s surface
● Continents, ocean basins
Plates
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Brown et al. (2015)
Most volcanoes are at plate boundaries. What about these “intraplate ones?
Plumes
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Hand et al. (2015)
Plumes
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Hand et al. (2015)Koppers et al. (2001)
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Plates, plumes, and time
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Finlayson et al. (submitted)
● Plume chemistry tells us about what’s deep inside the Earth
Plates, plumes, and time
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Finlayson et al. (submitted)
Konrad et al. (2018)
● And comparing plumes to each other tells us how things change deep in the Earth
“Seeing” Earth’s interior
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● Seismics “see” hot/dense (red) and cold (blue) structures in the mantle
● These circulate the mantle, driving plates AND plumes!
Why Do We Care?A few reasons!1. Knowing plate tectonics helps us know more about
earthquakes and volcanoes2. Understanding how plumes work over time3. Looking for metals, resources that form in some
volcanic systems4. How do (habitable) planets work?
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Deeper looks in time, planets
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USGS
Bernhard Steinberger
Deeper looks in time, planets
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USGS
Bernhard Steinberger
What’s nextUnderstanding what we see at the surface of a planet helps us “see” its interior better
Understanding how the Earth formed and changed with time, how it became able to support life
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