Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-275-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-275-2021
Research article
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29 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2021

The preserved plume of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau revealed by 3D data-integrative models

Ángela María Gómez-García, Eline Le Breton, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth, Gaspar Monsalve, and Denis Anikiev

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The Earth’s crust beneath the Caribbean Sea formed at about 90 Ma due to large magmatic activity of a mantle plume, which brought molten material up from the deep Earth. By integrating diverse geophysical datasets, we image for the first time two fossil magmatic conduits beneath the Caribbean. The location of these conduits at 90 Ma does not correspond with the present-day Galápagos plume. Either this mantle plume migrated in time or these conduits were formed above another unknown plume.