South Pacific hotspot swells dynamically supported by mantle flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Adam, Claudia ^a,b   Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Isse, Takehi ^c   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^a   Fukao, Yoshio ^a   Barruol, Guilhem ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FLUXES; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; DIRECT LINKS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOT SPOT; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

FLOW PATTERNS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

CORRELATION; FLOW MODELING; GEODYNAMICS; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; SWELLING; VOLCANISM;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 77951983602     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042534     Document Type: Article

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