The role of mantle plumes in driving plate tectonics and continental margin evolution

熔岩柱从地球深处升起，导致大规模的地表喷发，可能导致全球大灭绝事件。尽管它们的规模很大，但人们对羽流在推动大陆运动中的作用知之甚少。该项目将独立的全球和澳大利亚地质和地球物理数据与开放的软件系统相结合，将地球深部和地表地质过程联系起来。这种方法将使我们更清楚地了解地球的内部运作如何驱动地表地质过程，并与之相互作用。该项目还将展示这些相互作用如何塑造环境重要、资源丰富的大陆边缘和海洋盆地。

Plumes of molten rock rise from deep within the Earth resulting in massive surface eruptions that can lead to global mass extinction events. Despite their size, the role plumes play in driving movements of the continents is poorly understood. This project combines independent global and Australian geological and geophysical data with open software systems to link deep Earth and surface geological processes. This approach will result in a clearer understanding of how the internal workings of our planet drive, and interact with, surface geological processes. The project will also show how these interactions shape the environmentally important, and resources rich, continental margins and ocean basins.