Detection of mantle plumes in the lower mantle by diffraction tomography: Hawaii

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 99-115

  Ji, Ying ^a   Nataf, Henri Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; TOMOGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES, HAWAII;

EID: 0002201701     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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