- Title Information
- Title
- Investigating upper mantle temperature and composition beheath the Atlantic
Basin
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- Carchedi, Christopher
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- Dalton, Colleen
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- Brown University. Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary
Sciences
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- Brown University. Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award
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- posters
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- Providence
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- Brown University
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- 2015-08-07
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- 1 poster
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- Abstract
- Plate tectonics, which is responsible for most seismicity, volcanism, and
mountain building at Earth's surface, is expressed most simply in oceanic plates.
Understanding how the temperature and composition of mantle rocks beneath the seafloor vary
from place to place is critical for understanding plate motions and the thermal evolution of
the planet. Much of what is known about the oceanic lithosphere today is actually what is
known about lithosphere beneath the Pacific Ocean. In this study, we focus on the upper
mantle beneath the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to incorporate constraints from a different
oceanic setting. We treat separately the four individual plates that comprise the Atlantic
basin: North America, Eurasia, South America, and Africa.
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- Seismology
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- Geophysics
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- Earthquakes
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- Atlantic Ocean
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/dd6k-p314