HIGH P-WAVE SPEEDS IN THE UPPER MANTLE AND THEIR POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION WITH SUPER PLUMES


Tim A Stern, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, Simon Henry Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, Kimihiro Mochizuki, University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Karsten Gohl, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Geophysics, Bremerhaven, Germany, Katharina Hochmuth, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven and the University of Tasmania, Bremerhaven, Germany, James Daniel Paul Moore, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Pasan Herath, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and David A Okaya, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States