Rejuvenation of the lithosphere by the Hawaiian plume

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6977, 2004, Pages 827-829

  Li, Xueqing ^a   Kind, Rainer ^a,b   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Wölbern, Ingo ^a   Hanka, Winfried ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

LITHOSPHERE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; HEATING; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LITHOSPHERE; MECHANICS; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIGNAL DETECTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

HAWAIIA;

EID: 1542319094     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02349     Document Type: Article

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