Seismic evidence for a lower-mantle origin of the Iceland plume

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 62-65

  Shen, Yang ^a   Solomon, Sean C ^b   Bjarnason, Ingi Th ^c   Wolfe, Cecily J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; ICELAND; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

ICELAND;

EID: 0032480341     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25714     Document Type: Article

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