Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2022)

Mantle plume and rift-related volcanism during the evolution of the Rio Grande Rise

  • Patrick A. Hoyer,
  • Karsten M. Haase,
  • Marcel Regelous,
  • John M. O’Connor,
  • Stephan Homrighausen,
  • Wolfram H. Geissler,
  • Wilfried Jokat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00349-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

The oceanic plateau of the Rio Grande Rise, South Atlantic, was formed by mantle plume- and rift-related volcanism and shows no evidence of a continental crustal component, according to petrological and geochemical analyses of dredged volcanic rocks.