Hawaiian volcanic propagation and Hawaiian swell asymmetry: Evidence of northwestward flow of the deep upper mantle

Tectonophysics

Volumn 310, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 69-79

  Cox, R T ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hawaiian seamounts; Hotspots; Mantle convection; Plume

Indexed keywords

HOT SPOT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; SEAMOUNT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033567655     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00151-1     Document Type: Article

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