I was coincidentally up too late the night before last reading about hotspots and the idea that they're the source of certain rich ore deposits. It is difficult to build an intuitive understanding of what is thought to be going on down there from these jawbreaker style static illustrations. Someone really needs to put together some cool animations "realistically" depicting this stuff.
Good point. I’ve gotten pretty adapted to looking at jawbreaker illustrations and cross sections so it seems natural, but they are difficult to translate into 3-D. I just shared a note I tagged you in showing a 3-D numerical model of mantle upwellings that help visualize some hotspot anomalies!
I was coincidentally up too late the night before last reading about hotspots and the idea that they're the source of certain rich ore deposits. It is difficult to build an intuitive understanding of what is thought to be going on down there from these jawbreaker style static illustrations. Someone really needs to put together some cool animations "realistically" depicting this stuff.
Good point. I’ve gotten pretty adapted to looking at jawbreaker illustrations and cross sections so it seems natural, but they are difficult to translate into 3-D. I just shared a note I tagged you in showing a 3-D numerical model of mantle upwellings that help visualize some hotspot anomalies!