Mantle Plume Propelled India Towards Asia

By Sid Perkins of Nature magazine Evidence of historical irregularities in the motions of both the Indian and African tectonic plates bolsters the contention that plumes of hot rock rising from deep within Earth's mantle can drive the planet's tectonic plates. About 68 million years ago, the tectonic plate that includes the Indian subcontinent–which, at that time, had yet to slam into southern Asia–lay northeast of Madagascar and was moving north-eastward at a tectonically typical few centimeters per year. [More]

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Mantle Plume Propelled India Towards Asia