A recent study suggests that a five-fingered mantle plume emanating out of Iceland could be responsible for Scotland and part of Norway sitting above sea level. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

A volcanic eruption in Iceland has sparked the evacuation of the world-famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and surrounding ...

Prior research has shown that Iceland and a large part of the area around it was very strongly impacted by a mantle plume beneath the area. Mantle plumes are chimney-like structures that move hot ...

Mighty eruptions at a volcano in Iceland involve huge amounts of lava, so it's no surprise the Bardarbunga volcano lies directly over the hottest portion of the North Atlantic mantle plume ...

Some scientists think that plate tectonics cools the mantle, and mantle plumes cool the core. Two of the most well known locations that fit the mantle plume theory are Hawaii and Iceland as both ...

The long-standing paradigm that hotspot volcanoes such as Hawaii or Iceland represent the surface expression of mantle plumes—hot, buoyant upwelling regions beneath the Earth’s lithosphere ...

The Iceland plume is an upwelling of hot rock from Earth’s deep mantle. “The material rises under Iceland, where the crust is 15 kilometres thick, but continues its path below the adjacent Mid ...

Based on their results, there appears to be a massive circular blob of partially molten rock, approximately 800 kilometers in diameter and 15 kilometers in height, along the core-mantle boundary ...

A volcano erupted in Iceland's most densely populated area on December 18. It is the largest eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021.

So they built a model of a mantle plume and adjusted it until it fit the region's various surface features and seismic data. Based on the model, they estimate the plume is about 4,000 kilometers ...