= Yellowstone hotspot
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The <Yellowstone hotspot> is the region of anomalous <volcanism> and subsurface thermal structure associated with Yellowstone and the younger end of the eastern <Snake River Plain>. The observed volcanic progression constrains a relative history of the surface plate and the source of heat; it does not by itself prove an immobile vertical conduit.
Laboratory experiments have tested how <subduction>-driven <mantle flow> can distort a buoyant <mantle plume> and produce contrasting surface thermal progressions. This provides a physical mechanism to compare with the <Snake River Plain> and <High Lava Plains> patterns, while remaining conditional on the model geometry and flow properties.<Bifurcation of the Yellowstone plume driven by subduction-induced mantle flow by Christopher Kincaid and others>[Abstract: laboratory plume–subduction interaction and opposite volcanic progressions]{ref}
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