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megaplume

noun

Etymology

From mega- + plume.

  1. derived from *plewk-✻ — “to fly”
  2. derived from *plouksmā✻
  3. derived from plūma — “feather, plumage”
  4. derived from plume,plome — “feather, plumage”
  5. derived from plum,plume
  6. inherited from plum,plume — “feather; plumage”
  7. prefixed as megaplume — “mega + plume”

Definitions

  1. A very large plume or column of water.

    • A megaplume is a supermass of extremely hot rocks that moves very slowly under the surface of the earth and influences the breakup of tectonic plates.
    • Taken together, the two pieces of evidence could mean only one thing: the North Atlantic volcanoes were sitting atop a titanic, previously unknown hot spot, a megaplume of superheated magma rising from far down in the earth's mantle.

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