The elusive mantle plume

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Feb 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003e%26psl.207....1r&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 207, Issue 1-4, p. 1-12.

Mathematics

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Plumes, Seismic Tomography, Mantle Upwelling, S Waves, P Waves

Scientific paper

Mantle plumes are hypothetical hot, narrow mantle upwellings that are often invoked to explain hotspot volcanism with unusual geophysical and geochemical characteristics. The mantle plume is a well-established geological structure in computer modeling and laboratory experiments but an undisputed seismic detection of one has yet to be made. Vertically continuous low shear velocity anomalies in the upper mantle, expected for plumes, are present beneath the Afar, Bowie, Easter, Hawaii, Iceland, Louisville, McDonald, and Samoa hotspots but not beneath the other 29 hotspots in Sleep's 1990 catalog. Whether and how plumes form remain fundamental multi-disciplinary research questions. Should they exist, detection of whole-mantle plumes will depend on deployments of dense (50-100 km station spacing), wide-aperture (>1000 km) seismic networks to maximize model resolution in the transition zone and uppermost lower mantle since plume impingement upon the 660-km phase transition leaves a unique seismic imprint.

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