Recycled basaltic material in mantle plumes explains the appearance of the X-discontinuity in the upper mantle beneath the Hawaiian hotspot: 2D geodynamic numerical models

Monaco, Martina

Recycled basaltic material in mantle plumes explains the appearance of the X-discontinuity in the upper mantle beneath the Hawaiian hotspot: 2D geodynamic numerical models

Martina Monaco¹, Juliane Dannberg¹, Rene Gassmoeller¹ and Stephen Pugh², (1)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, (2)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom