Deep drilling into a mantle plume volcano: the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project
- Author:
- Stolper, Edward M., DePaolo, Donald J., Thomas, Donald M.
- Title:
- Deep drilling into a mantle plume volcano: the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project
- Periodical:
- Scientific Drilling
- Year:
- 2009
- Volume:
- 7
- Pages:
- 4-
- Subject:
- Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project Mantle plumes Volcanic plumes Volcanism
- Summary:
- The Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project (HSDP) was conceived in the mid-1980s to core continuously to a depth of several kilometers in the flank of a Hawaiian volcano. The particular interest in drilling Hawaiian volcanoes is that as they grow, they are slowly carried to the northwest by the moving Pacific plate. Therefore, by drilling a few kilometers into a Hawaiian volcano, one can in theory look 2900 km down into the Earth and gather information about the bottom 100 km of the mantle.
- Label:
- Geology
- URL:
- http://www.sci-dril.net/sd-volume7.pdf
- Date:
- March 2009
- Collection:
- Periodicals