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• Plate tectonicsRelated: Whether plumes exist as drawn, and how they relate to plates, remains contested.

• East African RiftRelated: The African Superswell plume is proposed as the engine lifting and stretching the rift.

• Volcanic islandRelated: Plumes can sustain volcanism long enough to build islands and trails of extinct volcanoes.

• VolcanismRelated: Plumes can feed volcanoes far from plate boundaries.

• Deccan TrapsRelated: A plume beneath the region is a leading explanation for the volcanism’s source.

• Isotope geochemistryRelated: Isotope signatures in plume-related lavas help distinguish mantle sources and their histories.

• Hotspot volcanismRelated: A plume is the proposed long-lived heat source beneath many hotspots.

• Deccan PlateauRelated: A plume is a leading explanation for the extensive volcanism that built the Deccan Traps.

• Flood basaltRelated: Plume-related melting is one proposed source of the magma feeding major flood-basalt eruptions.

• SeamountRelated: A plume can build a chain of seamounts as a plate moves over it.

• Greenstone beltRelated: Plume-related volcanism is another proposed origin for some Archean volcanic sequences.

• Rift valleyRelated: Plume-related heating and uplift may help initiate some continental rifts.

• VolcanologyRelated: Plumes help explain volcanic chains such as the Hawaiian Islands.

• Columbia River Basalt GroupRelated: Plume activity is one proposed source of the heat and magma behind the eruptions.

• Great Rift ValleyRelated: Hot mantle beneath eastern Africa contributes to uplift and volcanic activity during rifting.

• Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chainRelated: Plume models account for the long-lived volcanic source beneath the chain.

• Hotspot (geology)Related: Plumes are a leading explanation for how some hotspots deliver excess heat beneath plates.

• KomatiiteRelated: Plume-related melting is one proposed source of the high temperatures needed to make komatiite.

• AsthenosphereRelated: Whether plumes originate below the asthenosphere tests its role as a decoupling layer.

• Supercontinent cycleRelated: Plumes beneath insulating supercontinents, like under Central Pangaea, weaken and fracture them.

• Iridium anomalyRelated: A plume is one proposed driver of Deccan Traps volcanism near the boundary.

• Large igneous provinceRelated: A plume is one proposed source of the unusually high magma output in many provinces.

• VolcanoRelated: Plumes explain volcanic chains such as the Hawaiian Islands.

• Core–mantle boundaryRelated: Some plumes may rise from thermal or chemical anomalies near the boundary.

• Rayleigh–Taylor instabilityRelated: Thermal density contrasts can produce related gravitational instability in slowly deforming rock.

• Afar DepressionRelated: A deep thermal upwelling has been proposed as a contributor to Afar’s volcanism and uplift.

• Kaapvaal CratonRelated: Plume-related magmatism contributed to volcanic activity recorded in the craton’s ancient belts.

• Yellowstone hotspotRelated: A plume is the leading explanation for the deep heat source beneath Yellowstone.

• J. Tuzo WilsonRelated: Plumes are a modern physical explanation often used for Wilson-style hotspots.

• Magmatic sulfide depositRelated: Plume-related magmatism can generate large volumes of metal-bearing mafic magma.

• Mantle transition zoneRelated: Plumes may originate near the base of the transition zone or cross it.

• Kerguelen PlateauRelated: A plume is a leading explanation for the hotspot magmatism beneath the plateau.

• Oceanic plateauRelated: Plume-related melting is one explanation for the large magma volumes that build some plateaus.

• Submarine volcanoRelated: Plumes can sustain volcanic chains far from plate boundaries.

• Whole-mantle convectionRelated: Plumes are a proposed return flow that can carry deep mantle material upward.

• Upper mantleRelated: The depth, shape, and origin of plume roots remain debated through upper-mantle observations.

• Central Siberian PlateauRelated: A mantle plume is one proposed driver of Siberian Traps volcanism.

• Hawaii hotspotRelated: A rising mantle plume is the leading explanation for the hotspot’s persistent magma supply.

• John Tuzo WilsonRelated: Plume models offer one explanation for the relatively fixed volcanic sources behind hotspot tracks.

• Rheology of the mantleRelated: How plumes rise through a viscosity-stratified mantle tests convection models.

• SupercontinentRelated: Plume-related heating and volcanism have been proposed as contributors to continental rifting.

• Lower mantleRelated: Some plume models trace their source to thermal structures near the lower mantle’s base.

• Tectonics of VenusRelated: Plumes raise highlands, spread Coronae and flood the surface with basalt.