Abstract
V-shaped ridges of thickened oceanic crust above the Iceland plume are thought to record variations in the convection of the mantle below. Geochemical analyses of basalt samples taken from the ridges suggest the thickened crust formed as the result of blobs of hot mantle rising up in the underlying plume.
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