Source of Galapagos eruptions is not where models place it
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
Images gathered by University of Oregon scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers (almost 200 miles) report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands. It's not where geologists and computer modeling had assumed.