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This 2001 book provides a comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. The book describes the exciting results of the last few years, and integrates an immense amount of material from the fields of geology, geophysics, and geochemistry that bear on mantle plumes. Included are chapters on hotspots and mantle upwelling, large igneous provinces (including examples from Mars and Venus), mantle plume generation and melting in plumes, plumes as tracers of mantle processes, plumes and continental growth, Archean mantle plumes, superplumes, mantle plume events in Earth history, and their effect on the atmosphere, oceans, and life. This book will be valuable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and geology, and will also form a reference text for researchers in the Earth sciences from a variety of disciplines.

Mantle plumes.

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Mantle plumes. --- Volcanic plumes. --- Volcanism. --- Plate tectonics. --- Seismology.

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Chaleur --- Heat --- Panaches mantelliques. --- Mantle plumes. --- Failles (géologie) --- Faults (Geology) --- Convection. --- Convection.

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Geology --- Rifts (Geology) --- Continental drift. --- Mantle plumes. --- East African rift system --- Rift system --- Geodynamics --- U+02bcAfār kelel (Ethiopia) --- U+02bcAfār kelel (Ethiopia)

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This book provides a concise overview of our understanding of the entire mantle, its evolution since early differentiation and the consequences of superplumes for earth surface processes. The balanced, international authorship of the 18 contributions has produced a state-of-the-science report on the emerging concept of superplumes and has documented the potential of superplumes to serve as a testable model for future studies. The topic of superplume dynamics has been treated from different angles covering the sub-disciplines of geology, geochemistry, petrology as well as geophysics (including mineral physics, seismic tomography and mantle dynamics). For instance, it is shown how transport of heat via superplumes, huge stable pipes connecting the high-temperature core with the surface land mass, could have caused mass extinctions and drastic environmental change. Audience: Scientists, researchers and graduate students in geology, geochemistry and geophysics, planetary scientists, astrobiologists and environmental engineers. .

Mantle plumes. --- Plate tectonics. --- Earth --- Mantle. --- Tectonics, Plate --- Geodynamics --- Plumes (Fluid dynamics) --- Physical geography. --- Mineralogy. --- Geochemistry. --- Planetology. --- Geology. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Historical Geology. --- Physical geology --- Crystallography --- Minerals --- Chemical composition of the earth --- Chemical geology --- Geological chemistry --- Geology, Chemical --- Chemistry --- Earth sciences --- Geography --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Natural history --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Geophysics. --- Historical geology. --- Geology --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Physics