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plumehead

plumehead is the alternative form of plume head.

Meaning of plume head

Noun

plume head (plural plume heads)

  1. The broad, flattened top of a mantle plume, the eruption of which is thought to create a large igneous province.
    • When the plumehead reaches the underside of the overlying lithospheric shell of the Earth, it spreads laterally and thereby causes fractures to form which may propagate upward into the continental or oceanic crust.2007, Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, Introduction to Planetary Science: The Geological Perspective, page 76

Forms of plumehead

pluralplumeheads

Questions about plumehead

What is plumehead the alternative form of?
Plumehead is the alternative form of plume head.

Words near plumehead in the dictionary

  1. plumed whistling duck
  2. plumed whistling ducks
  3. plumedst
  4. plumegrass
  5. plumegrasses
  6. plumehead
  7. plumeholder
  8. plumeholders
  9. plumeless
  10. plumelet
  11. plumeleteer

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