A channel of low seismic-wave speed will act as a waveguide: Waves cannot escape ... would be virtually conclusive evidence for a continuous low-wave-speed channel. ...
... structure imaged beneath Africa and Iceland, Science, 286, 1925 1928, 1999. ... Different color schemes. Deep or shallow Iceland? Different views across Iceland ...
A plume is a bottom-heated convective upwelling that rises through ... Seismology does not reliably detect them in the lower mantle. An unfalsifiable hypothesis ...
The conduction geotherm may extend deeper than the average ... Centers Inferred from Seismology, Petrology, and Bathymetry. Douglas A. Wiens*, Katherine Kelley. ...
... prior to LIP emplacement. short ... pink eclogite is only temporarily stable at ... LIPs are associated with continental breakup. reconstruction at ~ 30 Ma ...
Alternatives do not amount to a single, generic, one-size fits ... Domal? - complex pattern predicted by both? Temperature - necessary? CMB origin - detectable? ...
Plumes, hotspots and 'hot fingers' The nature of convective ... Convenors: Gillian Foulger, Don Anderson & Jim Natland. Web site: http://www.mantle plumes.org ...
... model of lithosphere temperature from the ridge crest to old sea floor (t 160 ma) ... chamber 2 km below the ridge crest with a half-spreading rate of 2.5 ...
Examples of Hindsight Heresy in which a hypothesis is constructed after looking at a data set, and then using the same data to support and test the hypothesis ...
Title: Continental growth spurts were all before 1 Ga Subject: eclogite cycle Author: Don Anderson Last modified by: Don Anderson Created Date: 11/23/2006 1:36:59 AM
Title: Imaging Geothermal Hydrofracturing Last modified by: Gillian R. Foulger Document presentation format: On-screen Show Company: University of Durham
The role of mantle plumes in the Earth's heat budget Guust Nolet With thanks to: Raffaella Montelli Shun Karato . and NSF Chapman Conference, August 2005
Artifacts of teleseismic body-wave inversion Don L. Anderson A cylinder (a) and a pillbox (b) both give a tent or cone plus rabbit ears when teleseismic body waves ...