image: This is a 3-D image of the topography of the main Hawaiian islands. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Dec. 4 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. C.J. Wolfe at University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, and colleagues, was titled, "Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Paul Johnson, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa