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The Cretaceous Mantle Plume Beneath Svalbard's Rock

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High Arctic Large Igneous Province (Wikipedia)
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The HALIP is widely thought to have originated from a mantle plume, and the igneous activity of the province often tracked along a similar path as the Icelandic hotspot.
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