Physicists explain dance marathon of wispy feature in roiling fluids

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In the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters University of Chicago physicists Wendy Zhang (left) and Laura Schmidt scientifically explain a feature of convecting fluids that colleagues have observed in laboratory experiments. The featur ...
In the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters, University of Chicago physicists Wendy Zhang (left) and Laura Schmidt, scientifically explain a feature of convecting fluids that colleagues have observed in laboratory experiments. The feature may help explain how hotspot volcanism created the Hawaiian Islands and other such landforms. Credit: Photo by Dan Dry

Theoretical physicists at the University of Chicago are suggesting how thin spouts of magma in the Earth's mantle can persist long enough to form hotspot volcanism of the type that might have created the Hawaiian Islands.


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