Implications of lower-mantle structural heterogeneity for the existence and nature of whole-mantle plumes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 430, Issue , 2007, Pages 79-101

  Garnero, Edward J ^a   Lay, Thorne ^b   McNamara, Allen ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; D; Hotspots; Plumes; Thermochemical piles

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DEUTERIUM; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHEMICAL HETEROGENEITIES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HOTSPOTS; LARGE LOW SHEAR VELOCITY PROVINCES (LLSVPS); PLUMES; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; ULTRALOW VELOCITY ZONE;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; HETEROGENEITY; HOT SPOT; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; PARTIAL MELTING; S-WAVE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84887058619     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(05)     Document Type: Article

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