A compositional anomaly at the Earth's core-mantle boundary as an anchor to the relatively slowly moving surface hotspots and as source to the DUPAL anomaly

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 138-148

  Wen, Lianxing ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compositional anomaly; DUPAL anomaly; hotspot; thermochemical plume; VLVP

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL ANOMALY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; SURFACE HOTSPOTS; THERMOCHEMICAL PLUME;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; TECTONICS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; PALEOLATITUDE; PLATE MOTION;

EID: 33646934094     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.024     Document Type: Article

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