Dr Tozer casts a critical eye over the concept of thermal plumes that is attracting a good deal of attention in the Earth sciences just now.
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TOZER, D. Thermal Plumes in the Earth's Mantle. Nature 244, 398–400 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244398a0
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