Seismic imaging of transition zone discontinuities suggests hot mantle west of Hawaii

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6033, 2011, Pages 1068-1071

  Cao, Q ^a   Van Der Hilst, R D ^a   De Hoop, M V ^b   Shim, S H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; PEROVSKITE; PYROLYTIC CARBON;

ENTRAINMENT; GARNET; HOT SPOT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IMAGING METHOD; LAVA FLOW; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE PLUME; OLIVINE; PYROLITE; SEISMIC METHOD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRANSITION ZONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOT MANTLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEISMOGRAPHY; SENSOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY; VOLCANO;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957623656     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1202731     Document Type: Article

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