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

Scott W. French and Barbara Romanowicz ()
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Scott W. French: Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley
Barbara Romanowicz: Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley

Nature, 2015, vol. 525, issue 7567, 95-99

Abstract: A whole-mantle seismic imaging technique, combining accurate wavefield computations with information contained in whole seismic waveforms, is used to reveal the presence of broad conduits beneath many of Earth’s surface hotspots, supporting the idea that these conduits are the source of hotspot volcanoes.

Date: 2015
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