Seismic Imaging of Transition Zone Discontinuities Suggests Hot Mantle
West of Hawaii
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6033/1068
Another Look Beneath Hawaii Knocks Islands Off Their Riser Pipe.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/05/another-look-beneath-hawaii-knoc.html?rss=1
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The above two articles, probably, let us rethink current mantle plumes
and convection.concept. In my blog
http://divergent-boundaries.blogspot.com/ I tried to suggest another
heat transport mechanism:
Tectonics. Types Of Heat Transport To Develop Calderas, Volcanoes, And
Divergent Boundaries.
http://divergent-boundaries.blogspot.com/2011/06/tectonics-types-of-heat-transport-to.html
Sergey Sukhotinsky.
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Slow Earthquake In Case A Divergent Boundary Is Close To Subduction Zone.
http://divergent-boundaries.blogspot.com/2011/06/slow-earthquakes.html
Formation Of Mountain Ridges by Broken Process Of Subduction Of A
Tectonic Plate.
http://divergent-boundaries.blogspot.com/2011/05/mountain-ridges-formation-keeping-it.html
Continental Formation And Evolution Revisited.
http://divergent-boundaries.blogspot.com/2011/05/continental-formation-and-evolution_18.html
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