Anomalous mantle transition zone beneath the Yellowstone hotspot track
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DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0126-4
Abstract: The origin of the Yellowstone and Snake River Plain volcanism has been strongly debated. The mantle plume model successfully explains the age-progressive volcanic track, but a deep plume structure has been absent in seismic imaging.… read more here.
Keywords: mantle transition; hotspot track; transition zone;