Source of Galapagos eruptions not where models place it

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:03 in Earth & Climate

Images gathered by scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers have found an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands. It's not where geologists and computer modeling had assumed.

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