Undershooting the East Pacific Rise (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Undershooting the East Pacific Rise

Caption

Perspective view of East Pacific Rise and the seismic velocity structure of the underlying mantle. Surprisingly, regions of magma storage in the mantle (shown as orange and red colors) are in many places not centered beneath the plate plate boundary.

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Courtesy Douglas Toomey

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