Mantle flow and deformation beneath tectonic plates
Why do seismic images vary beneath different ocean floors?
Seismic anisotropy under an oceanic plate illustrated by Vojta Hýbl
The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass
Potsdam gravity potato (image: GFZ, 2011)
In this week’s News & Views, Postdoc Elodie Kendall from GFZ Potsdam shares with us recent work on the mantle structures that could explain the Indian Ocean Geoid Low. What is the geoid, what does it look like and what can it tell us about mantle structure? The geoid is a model of the shape of the oceans’ surface if only gravity and Earth’s rotation act ...[Read More]