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Such material eventually contaminated the subduction related volcanism in the Alboran region. In this work, we use scaled analogue models of slab\u2013plume interaction to investigate the plausibility of the plume capture. An upper-mantle-scaled model combines a narrow (400\u00a0km) edge-fixed subduction plate with a laterally offset compositional plume. The subduction dominated by slab rollback and toroidal mantle flow is seen to increasingly impact on the plume dynamics as the area of influence of the toroidal flow cells at the surface is up to 500 \u00d7 1350\u00a0km2. While the plume head initially spreads axisymmetrically, it starts being distorted parallel to the plate in the direction of the trench as the slab trench approaches the plume edge at a separation distance of about 500\u00a0km, before getting dragged towards mantle wedge. When applied to the Canary plume\u2013Gibraltar subduction system, our model supports the observationally based conceptual model that mantle plume material may have been dragged towards the mantle wedge by slab rollback-induced toroidal mantle flow. Using a scaling argument for the spreading of a gravity current within a channel, we also show that more than 1500\u00a0km of plume propagation in the sublithospheric Atlas corridor is dynamically plausible.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/gji\/ggv120","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,15]],"date-time":"2015-04-15T01:03:16Z","timestamp":1429059796000},"page":"1717-1721","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Capture of the Canary mantle plume material by the Gibraltar arc mantle wedge during slab rollback"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"201","author":[{"given":"C.A.","family":"M\u00e9riaux","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, P-1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal. 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