…“确定的”和“可能的”羽头事件发生在整个地质记录中,至少从3500 Ma开始,可能从3800 Ma开始,自3500 Ma以来没有超过200 Myr的无羽间隔。羽头到达没有明显的周期性。< / p >
If you look at the cumulative frequency diagram, there seems to be a increase in event frequency over the last 150 Ma:
There are periods when plume activity appears to be more intense than at other times. These intervals are identified by steeper slopes on a cumulative plot of LIP frequency. The most prominent are at 2800–2700, 2200–1800, 150–0 Ma and more speculatively at 1300–1100 Ma.
But as the authors explain, this is a bias due to the fact that the recent record preserves both oceanic and continental LIPs. However, the oceanic crust is consistently recycled (it's nowhere older than ~200 Ma), thus older events are continental LIPs only. If corrected to include only continental LIPs in the recent (< 150 Ma) record, the trend seems "normal" (dotted line).