Urmi Dutta

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Patna University

In many geological systems inversion of density stratification sets in Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities, leading to an ascent of relatively low-density materials through the high-density overburden in the form of diapirs. These diapirs often originate from dipping low-density layers. This study aims to show how the initial tilt of such source lay...

Mantle plumes constitute a large-scale thermal advec- tion process of million-year timescale inside the Earth. It has been inferred that they mostly initiate as ther- mal perturbations at the core–mantle boundary, and subsequently ascend through the mantle, giving rise to hotspots and large igneous provinces. Using volume- of-fluid (VOF) models, th...

Using an enthalpy based thermo-mechanical model we provide a theoretical evaluation of melt production beneath mid-ocean ridges (MORs), and demonstrate how the melts subsequently develop their pathways to sustain the major ridge processes. Our model employs a Darcy idealization of the two-phase (solid-melt) system, accounting enthalpy (ΔH) as a fun...

In Earth's mantle gravity instabilities initiated by density inversion lead to upwelling of hot materials as plumes. This study focuses upon the problem of their ascent dynamics to provide an explanation of the periodic multiple eruption events in large igneous provinces and hotspots. We demonstrate from physical experiments that plumes can ascend...

Diapiric structure owing to gravity instabilities, triggered by density inversion in the rock sequences, is a unique geodynamic manifestation. High-density layers that rest upon low-density layers tend to sink, forcing the latter to squeeze up in the form of domal shapes, called buoyant diapirs. Using two-layer viscous model experiments, we investi...