Shifting Plates (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Shifting Plates

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Illustrations show how (a) pressure gradient-driven flow and (b) density-driven small-scale convection could work in the asthenosphere. At the top is the surface view showing the locations of the NoMelt seismometers. The red arrows indicated the flow direction.

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Lin et al., Nature 2016

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