Rupturing Farallon slab formed Columbia River flood basalt
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Rupturing Farallon slab formed Columbia River flood basalt [Liu & Stegman, Nature 2012] 15 Ma 0 Ma Geometry of the subducting Farallon slab and mantle flow The slab tear causing CRB is now imaged by tomography • Modeling western US seismic structure requires the Farallon slab to break ~16 Ma, and the slab tearing coincides with the sequence of CRB eruptions both in space and time (upper right). • The slab tear involves a focused asthenosphere upwelling (lower right), suggesting that the CRB magmas are from re-melting of the subducting oceanic lithosphere and oceanic crust.
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Rupturing Farallon slab formed Columbia River flood basalt. [Liu & Stegman, Nature 2012]. Modeling western US seismic structure requires the Farallon slab to break ~16 Ma, and the slab tearing coincides with the sequence of CRB eruptions both in space and time (upper right) . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Rupturing Farallon slab formed Columbia River flood basalt
[Liu & Stegman, Nature 2012]
15 Ma0 Ma
Geometry of the subducting
Farallon slab and mantle flow
Geometry of the subducting
Farallon slab and mantle flow
The slab tear causing CRB is
now imaged by tomography
The slab tear causing CRB is
now imaged by tomography
• Modeling western US seismic structure requires the Farallon slab to break ~16 Ma, and the slab tearing coincides with the sequence of CRB eruptions both in space and time (upper right).
• The slab tear involves a focused asthenosphere upwelling (lower right), suggesting that the CRB magmas are from re-melting of the subducting oceanic lithosphere and oceanic crust.