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1. Seismological detection of a mantle plume?

Author

Nataf, Henri-Claude and VanDecar, John

Subjects
*EARTH (Planet), *GEOPHYSICS research
Abstract

Presents a seismological study of the mantle beneath the Bowie hotspot of west of Canada. Revellation of a zone of low seismic velocitites; Delay of 0.15 seconds to the travel time of seismic waves traversing a region approximately 150 kilometers in diameter; Suggestions that a mantle plume is present in the lower mantle with the amplitude of the anomaly implying a temperature contrast of 300 K.

Published
1993
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