The next IRIS Webinar highlights “Imaging the African Superplume Using AfricaArray Data: Is the Superplume a Whole-Mantle Structure?” at 2 pm EST (7 pm UTC) on Wednesday, 2/12.
Register to attend: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/617775338
You will be emailed a confirmation containing a link for accessing the webinar. The presentation and subsequent interactions between the speaker, host, and audience are recorded and made available within a few days. Access to the webinar archive, along with related materials and more information on the series is found here: http://www.iris.edu/hq/webinar/
Presenter: Professor Andy Nyblade, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract: The African superplume is arguably one of the largest features in Earth’s lower mantle and whether or not it extends into the upper mantle beneath eastern Africa, giving rise to the Cenozoic rifting, volcanism and plateau uplift found there, has long been debated. New seismic images of mantle structure obtained from modeling AfricaArray data indicate that the superplume is indeed a whole-mantle structure. The images come from body and surface wave tomography, receiver function stacks illuminating topography on the 410 and 660 km discontinuities, and shear wave splitting. The seismic images are consistent with a thermal anomaly of a few hundred degrees spanning the mid-mantle connecting anomalous lower mantle structure under southern Africa with anomalous upper mantle structure under eastern Africa.
Please direct any related inquiries or amusing memes to Andy Frassetto (andyf@iris.edu).
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