Abstract
In the northwestern United States, two neighbouring volcanic chains—the Snake River Plain and High Lava Plains—decrease in age in opposing directions. Laboratory experiments show that diverging volcanic chains can form where vigorous mantle circulation beneath a subduction zone causes an upwelling mantle plume to split into two.
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