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SCIENCE
Volume 290, Issue 5494, Pages 1137-1140Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5494.1137
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Numerical models demonstrate that small-scale convection develops in the upper mantle beneath the transition of thick cratonic lithosphere and thin oceanic lithosphere. These models explain the Location and geochemical characteristics of intraplate Volcanos on the African and South American plates. They also explain the presence of relatively high seismic shear wave velocities (cold downwellings) in the mantle transition zone beneath the western margin of African cratons and the eastern margin of South American cratons, Small-scale, edge-driven convection is an alternative to plumes for explaining intraplate African and South American hot spot volcanism, and small-scale convection is consistent with mantle downwellings beneath the African and South American Lithosphere.
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