Source of Galápagos Eruptions is not Where Models Place it

By University of Oregon on Jan 21, 2014   Science/Education  

EUGENE, Ore. — (Jan. 21, 2014) — Images gathered by University of Oregon scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers (almost 200 miles) report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galápagos Islands. It's not where geologists and computer modeling had assumed.