Citations:plume tail

Noun: "(geology) the narrow, column-like structure of a mantle plume, thought to cause continued hot spot volcanism after the plume head dissipates"

 * 2002, Edward J. Tarbuck & Frederick K. Lutgens, Earth: Introduction to Physical Geology (Seventh Edition), page 127:
 * The comparatively short initial eruptive phase is followed by tens of millions of years of less voluminous activity, as the plume tail slowly rises to the surface.
 * 2003, Francis Albarède, Geochemistry: An Introduction, page 139:
 * The residual plume tail may remain active for tens of millions of years and, as plates move across the surface, it may form strings of volcanoes thousands of kilometers long such as those of Hawaii.
 * 2005, Philip A. Allen & John A. Allen, Basin Analysis: Principles and Applications, page 108:
 * Two sorts of uplift pattern and igneous activity should result from plume activity depending on whether the lithosphere migrates over a plume head or plume tail.
 * 2006, "Part 2: Geochemical constraints on flood basalt and rift processes", in The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System (eds. G. Yirgu, C. J. Ebinger, & P. K. H. Maguire), pages 73-74:
 * They argue that the Afar plume is a long-lived feature of the mantle and that its fundamental isotopic composition has effectively not changed during transition from Oligocene plume head volcanism to modern plume tail activity.
 * 2009, Sigurdur Steinthorsson, "Iceland", in Encyclopedia of Islands (eds. Rosemary G. Gillespie & David A. Clague), page 440:
 * In this hypothesis, the Kerguelen Plateau/Broken Ridge LIP represents volcanism derived from the plume head, and the Ninety East Ridge, a long (more than 5000-km), age-progressive, and linear chain of volcanoes, represents volcanism derived from the plume tail.
 * 2012, Olav Eldholm, Jakob Skogseid, Sverre Planke, & Tadeusz P. Gladczenko, "Volcanic Margin Concepts", in Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries (eds. E. Banda, M. Torné, & Manik Talwani), page 11:
 * Subsequently, the excess melting decreases and persistent volcanism is limited to a plumetail, commonly expressed as a submarine ridge or seamount chain.
 * 2014, Richard E. Ernst, Large Igneous Provinces, page 198:
 * On Earth, plume-tail magmatism occurs as oceanic hotspot tracks, but is rarely observed on continents.