Deep Drilling into a Mantle Plume Volcano: The Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project
Oceanic volcanoes formed by mantle plumes, such as those of Hawaii and Iceland, strongly influence our views about the deep Earth (Morgan, 1971; Sleep, 2006). These volcanoes are the principal geochemical probe into the deep mantle, a testing ground for understanding mantle convection, plate tectoni...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Scientific Drilling |
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| Online Access: | http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd7_09.pdf#page=4 |