Researchers find evidence of hot spot that burned eastern underside of US tectonic plate
Monday, September 16, 2013 - 08:00
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —A combined team of researchers from the U.S. and China has found evidence of what they believe is burning on the underside of the North American tectonic plate. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes how they used data from a minor earthquake that occurred in the eastern part of the North America in 2011 to reveal hot spot activity below.