{"id":536,"date":"2014-01-27T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2014-01-30T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:47:55","slug":"new-paper-on-seismic-imaging-of-lithospheric-structure-and-the-onset-of-melting-beneath-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2014\/01\/new-paper-on-seismic-imaging-of-lithospheric-structure-and-the-onset-of-melting-beneath-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Seismic imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/oes\/about\/staff\/cr1c09.page\">Kate Rychert<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/oes\/research\/staff\/nh1v08.page\">Nick Harmon<\/a> have a new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters about seismic imaging of crust and mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Galapagos Archipelago. They image a lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary that is too thick to be consistent with a thermally defined plate, indicating a compositional component. They also image discontinuities related to the onset of melting, deeper in 3 sectors, and suggestive of complex plume-ridge interactions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Paper details can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/361095\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Rychert and Nick Harmon have a new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters about seismic imaging of crust and mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Galapagos Archipelago. They image a lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary that is too thick to be consistent with a thermally defined plate, indicating a compositional component. They also image discontinuities related&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2014\/01\/new-paper-on-seismic-imaging-of-lithospheric-structure-and-the-onset-of-melting-beneath-galapagos\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seismic imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath Galapagos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[493988,4217,517518,328889],"tags":[494059,494058,494038,494043,494061,494062,494060,493980,493999],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-roll","category-news","category-publications","category-research-projects","tag-galapagos","tag-hotspot","tag-lithosphere-asthenosphere","tag-melt","tag-ocean-lithosphere","tag-receiver-function","tag-ridge","tag-seismic","tag-seismology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}