IODP Expedition 330: Drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific
Deep-Earth convection can be understood by studying hotspot volcanoes that form where mantle plumes rise up and intersect the lithosphere, the Earth’s rigid outer layer. Hotspots characteristically leave age-progressive trails of volcanoes and seamounts on top of oceanic lithosphere, which in turn a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Scientific Drilling |
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| Online Access: | http://www.iodp.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=3647 |