Prospecting for hotspot roots

Cecily J. Wolfe ()
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Cecily J. Wolfe: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6708, 212-213

Abstract: Oceanic islands such as Iceland and Hawaii are thought to be the result of upwelling plumes of material from within the Earth's mantle. But at what depth do such plumes originate? New seismological analyses place the source as far down as the core-mantle boundary, 2,900 km beneath the Earth's surface.

Date: 1998
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