08-11-2017 23:02 via gizmodo.com

Let's All Calm Down and Make Sense of That Antarctic Mantle Plume - Gizmodo

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Let's All Calm Down and Make Sense of That Antarctic Mantle Plume
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Three decades ago, scientists began to study the possibility that there was a plume of hot rock coming up from the mantle, heating parts of Western Antarctica. Back in September, researchers published results of a model showing how such a plume might ...
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