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The preserved plume of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau revealed by 3D data-integrative models
Ángela María Gómez-García
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
CEMarin – Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences, Bogotá, Colombia
Invited contribution by Ángela María Gómez-García, recipient of the EGU Seismology Outstanding Student Poster and PICO Award 2019.
Eline Le Breton
Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin,
12249 Berlin, Germany
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Gaspar Monsalve
Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
Denis Anikiev
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Short summary
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.
The Earth’s crust beneath the Caribbean Sea formed at about 90 Ma due to large magmatic...
