Question

How is mantle plume associated with plate tectonics?

Answer 1

Explanation:

➡️ A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle.Some scientists think that plate tectonics cools the mantle, and mantle plumes cool the core. Two of the most well known locations that fit the mantle plume theory are Hawaii and Iceland as both have volcanic activity.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• ⬅️ A mantle plume is posited to exist where hot rock nucleates at the core-mantle boundary and rises through the Earth's mantle becoming a diapir in the Earth's crust. the broad convective flow associated with plate tectonics, driven primarily by the sinking of cold plates of lithosphere back into the mantle asthenosphere.