Dynamic motions in Earth's mantle can be expressed at the surface. Rocks and landscapes beneath the North Atlantic Ocean record surface uplift driven by pulses of hot material upwelling in a mantle plume beneath Iceland.
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In the version of this News & Views originally published online, the year of publication for ref. 10 should have been 2009 instead of 2008. This error has now been corrected in all versions of the text.
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Allen, P. Surface impact of mantle processes. Nature Geosci 4, 498–499 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1216
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