Solid Earth, 12, 275–298, 2021 https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-275-2021 © Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The preserved plume of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau revealed by 3D data-integrative models Ángela María Gómez-García1,2,3,z, Eline Le Breton4, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth1, Gaspar Monsalve2, and Denis Anikiev1 1GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany 2Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia 3CEMarin – Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences, Bogotá, Colombia 4Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany zInvited contribution by Ángela María Gómez-García, recipient of the EGU Seismology Outstanding Student Poster and PICO Award 2019. Correspondence: Ángela María Gómez-García (
[email protected]) Received: 4 September 2020 – Discussion started: 28 September 2020 Revised: 19 November 2020 – Accepted: 4 December 2020 – Published: 29 January 2021 Abstract. Remnants of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau tomography, at least down to 75 km depth. The interpreted (C-LIP) are found as thicker than normal oceanic crust in plume conduits spatially correlate with the thinner crustal re- the Caribbean Sea that formed during rapid pulses of mag- gions present in both basins; therefore, we propose a mod- matic activity at ∼ 91–88 and ∼ 76 Ma. Strong geochemi- ification to the commonly accepted tectonic model of the cal evidence supports the hypothesis that the C-LIP formed Caribbean, suggesting that the thinner domains correspond due to melting of the plume head of the Galápagos hotspot, to the centres of uplift due to the inflow of the hot, buoyant which interacted with the Farallon (Proto-Caribbean) plate plume head.