Oceanic Intraplate Volcanism: Mechanism and Observation

Brown University, Providence RI

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to explore buoyant decompression melting as a mechanism for oceanic intraplate volcanism. 3D models will be used to explore buoyant melting in 3D, the statistics of populations of volcanoes that nucleate from small random initial disturbances in a broad, plate-scale mantle upwelling, and the effects of shearing due to plate motion.