Since their development in the 1960s, seismic arrays have given a new impulse to
seismology. Recordings from many uniform seismometers in a well‐defined, closely spaced …

Phase transformations in mantle mineralogies probably cause the transition zone seismic
discontinuities, nominally at 410, 520, and 660 km depth. Thermodynamic principles govern …

A new model of whole mantle P-wave tomography is determined with a novel approach. A
grid parameterization instead of blocks and spherical harmonics is adopted to express the …

A new global tomography approach has been used to study the deep structure and
dynamics of hotspots and mantle plumes. In this approach, depth variations of the Moho …

The mantle plume hypothesis is now widely known to explain hotspot volcanoes, but direct
evidence for actual plumes is weak, and seismic images are available for only a few …

Iceland is known to be a centre of both hotspot and Mid-Atlantic Ridge activity. A plume
origin for the hotspot has been suggested by observational, laboratory and numerical …

In this article we first introduce the methodology of multiscale seismic tomography and the
way to interpret the obtained tomographic images, and then review the significant recent …

The bimodal NW Etendeka province is located at the continental end of the Tristan plume
trace in coastal Namibia. It comprises a high-Ti (Khumib type) and three low-Ti basalt …

Although the image of crocodyliforms as 'unchanged living fossils' is naive, several
morphological features of the group are thought to have varied only within narrow limits …

The volcanic edifice of the Hawaiian islands and seamounts, as well as the surrounding
area of shallow sea floor known as the Hawaiian swell, are believed to result from the …