Gillian — may refer to:* Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb, a fictional character in the DC universe * Gillian Andrassy, a fictional character in the soap opera All My Children * Mike Gillian (born 1964), American basketball coachPeople with the given name… … Wikipedia
Volcanic belt — [ Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt in Mexico ] A volcanic belt is a large volcanically active region. Other terms are used for smaller areas of activity, such as volcanic fields. Volcanic belts are found above zones of unusually high temperature (700… … Wikipedia
Iceland plume — The Iceland Plume is an upwelling of anomalously hot rock in the Earth s mantle beneath Iceland whose origin probably lies at the boundary between the core and the mantle at ca. 2880 km depth. It is generally thought to be the cause of the… … Wikipedia
Iceland hotspot — The Iceland hotspot is a hotspot which is partly responsible for the high volcanic activity which has formed the island of Iceland.DescriptionIceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, with eruptions occurring on average… … Wikipedia
Price Medal — is a medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. It is now awarded every other year for investigations of outstanding merit in solid earth geophysics, oceanography, or planetary sciences. [cite web url=http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com… … Wikipedia
Mantle plume — A superplume generated by cooling processes in the mantle.[1] A mantle plume is a hypothetical thermal diapir of abnormally hot rock that nucleates at the core mantle boundary and rises through the Earth s mantle. Such plumes were invoked in 1971 … Wikipedia
Darwin Rise — The Darwin Rise is broad triangular region in the south central Pacific Ocean where there is a concentration of atolls. In 1964, Henry Menard proposed that this was a superswell raised by volcanism during the Cretaceous (120 80 mya). A problem… … Wikipedia
Plate tectonics — The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century … Wikipedia
Yellowstone Caldera — The northeastern part of Yellowstone Caldera, with the Yellowstone River flowing through Hayden Valley and the caldera rim in the distance … Wikipedia
Diapir — For the undergarment, see Diaper. An original Mathmos Astro lava lamp. A lava lamp illustrates Rayleigh–Taylor instability type diapirism in which the tectonic stresses are low. A diapir ( … Wikipedia
