Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Remnant of the late Permian superplume that generated the Siberian Traps inferred from geomagnetic data

  • Shiwen Li,
  • Yabin Li,
  • Yanhui Zhang,
  • Zikun Zhou,
  • Junhao Guo,
  • Aihua Weng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37053-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Discovering ancient mantle plumes is challenging. By combining electrical conductivity with mineral physics modelling, this work finds a remnant of an ancient plume trapped in the mantle transition zone and sheds new light on mantle plume physics.