A protracted-hidden plume of magma beneath Oman’s Salma Plateau could have performed a stunning function in shaping the Indian subcontinent’s historic journey, researchers report. This “ghost” plume — scorching materials trapped beneath Earth’s thick crust — can not erupt however could have shifted the Indian tectonic plate’s course throughout its dramatic collision with Eurasia tens of hundreds of thousands of years in the past. First detailed within the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the discovering reveals a brand new class of deep mantle plumes that form continents silently, with out the everyday signature of floor volcanoes.
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