Figure 6. A drawing of a model of plume-lithosphere interaction beneath oceanic lithosphere that produces basalts erupted in an oceanic plateau. Dashed line marks the base of the mechanical boundary layer. White arrows indicate flattening of the plume head. Model developed primarily after work by Saunders et al. (1992). Parts of the diagrams were adapted from a drawing by J. Holden in Fodor (1987) and a plume model by
Farnetani and Samuel (2005).