Research offers new insight into deep Earth processes
Published: 22 October 2024
An international team of scientists led by researchers from SUERC and the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, have uncovered surprising results in a new study of volcanic lavas which erupted in the Red Sea from the Afar mantle plume. In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment, the team conclude that the Afar plume is in fact dominated by material that has previously been at the Earth’s surface.