Role of the deep mantle in generating the compositional asymmetry of the Hawaiian mantle plume

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 831-838

  Weis, Dominique ^a   Garcia, Michael O ^b   Rhodes, J Michael ^c   Jellinek, Mark ^a   Scoates, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; DATA SET; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE PLUME; PACIFIC PLATE; SAMPLING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

EID: 82455210623     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1328     Document Type: Review

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