Sentences with phrase «oceanic crust below»
«This study is the first geophysical observation that large magma chambers exist in the deep oceanic crust below.»
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In the months before an October 2011 eruption, magma from the upper mantle accumulated in a layer of oceanic crust 6 to 10 miles below sea level.
«When crust from an oceanic tectonic plate plunges beneath a continental tectonic plate, as it does beneath the Andean Plateau, it brings water with it and partially melts the mantle, the layer below Earth's crust,» said Rice University's Jonathan Delph, co-author of the new study published online this week in Scientific Reports.
So yes, Rapa Nui sits way out in the ass end of nowhere, atop a seamount that has formed via the Easter hotspot, an upwelling of magma below the oceanic crust that has generated a range of undersea mountains (the Nazca Ridge) as the Nazca Plate drifted above it....