Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

Nature

Volumn 525, Issue 7567, 2015, Pages 95-99

  French, Scott W ^a,d   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; GEODYNAMICS; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; ORIENTATION; ROCK; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; THERMOCHEMISTRY; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; ICELAND; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMOA; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO; WAVEFORM;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; ICELAND; SAMOA;

EID: 84940948448     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14876     Document Type: Article

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