Geochemical variation at the Hawaiian hot spot caused by upper mantle dynamics and melting of a heterogeneous plume

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Bianco, Todd Anthony ^a   Ito, Garrett ^a   Van Hunen, Jeroen ^b   Ballmer, Maxim D ^c   Mahoney, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Hawaii; Heterogeneity; Hot spot; Mantle; Melting

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449167477     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002111     Document Type: Article

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