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Yuan & Dueker 2005
Yuan, H. and Dueker, K. (2005). Teleseismic P-wave tomogram of the Yellowstone plume. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL022056. issn: 0094-8276.

Inversion of a new data set of teleseismic P-wave travel-times from three PASSCAL seismic deployments around the Yellowstone hotspot reveals a 100 km diameter upper mantle plume that extends from the Yellowstone volcanic caldera to 500 km depth and dips 20¿ to the northwest. A monotonic decrease in the velocity perturbation of the plume from -3.2% at 100 km to -0.9% at 450 km is consistent with a uniform thermal anomaly of 180¿C. Where the plume crosses the 410 km discontinuity, previous research shows a depression in the 410 km discontinuity consistent with a warm plume (Fee and Dueker, 2004). Additionally, a region of high velocities extends to 250 km beneath the Wind River basin in NW Wyoming that may represent a convective downwelling of the lithosphere.

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Keywords
Seismology, Lithosphere, Tectonophysics, Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle, general, Tectonophysics, Tomography (6982, 7270)
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Geophysical Research Letters
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