Unmixing Hawaiian cocktails

Alex N. Halliday ()
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Alex N. Halliday: Institute for Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources

Nature, 1999, vol. 399, issue 6738, 733-734

Abstract: The Hawaiian islands are the surface manifestation of a so-called mantle plume. According to one idea, these plumes are recycled slabs of material that was originally created at mid-ocean ridges and then subducted deep into the mantle. An analysis of osmium isotope ratios in Hawaiian lavas not only supports the idea but — contentiously — concludes that the slab material is little distorted despite having undergone a billion years of mantle convection.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/21533

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