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Prospecting for hotspot roots

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  • Cecily J. Wolfe

    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Carnegie Institution of Washington)

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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.

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  • Cecily J. Wolfe, 1998. "Prospecting for hotspot roots," Nature, Nature, vol. 396(6708), pages 212-213, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:396:y:1998:i:6708:d:10.1038_24258
    DOI: 10.1038/24258
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