A seismic tomography, gravity, and flexure study of the crust and upper mantle structure across the Hawaiian ridge: 2. Ka'ena

RA Dunn, AB Watts, C Xu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Hawaiian Ridge, a classic intraplate volcanic chain in the Central Pacific
Ocean, has long attracted researchers due to its origin, eruption patterns, and impact on …

A seismic tomography, gravity, and flexure study of the crust and upper mantle structure of the Hawaiian Ridge: 1

BG MacGregor, RA Dunn, AB Watts… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Hawaiian Ridge has long been a focus site for studying lithospheric flexure due
to intraplate volcano loading, but crucial load and flexure details remain unclear. We …

The relationship between gravity anomalies and topography in the Pacific Ocean and its implications for flexural isostasy, mantle viscosity and dynamics

A Yang, AB Watts, S Zhong - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2025 - Elsevier
Mantle dynamics in the interior and flexural isostasy of the lithosphere contribute to Earth's
topography and gravity fields at different wavelengths, yet the actual transition wavelength …

The effective elastic thickness along the Emperor Seamount Chain and its tectonic implications

AB Watts, P Wessel, C Xu - Geophysical Journal International, 2025 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Hawaiian–Emperor Seamount Chain, a pre-eminent example of a hotspot-
generated intraplate seamount chain, provides key constraints not only on the kinematics of …

[HTML][HTML] Kaiwi shoreline basalts fed by the west rift zone of East Molokaʻi

B Taylor, JM Sinton - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Bathymetry and acoustic imagery swath map**, along with observations and samples
from four manned submersible and four ROV dives, confirm that a seafloor slope break on …

Magma-Assisted Flexure of Hawaiian Lithosphere Inferred From Three-Dimensional Models of Lithospheric Flexure Constrained by Active Source Seismic Data

D Douglas, G Apuzen-Ito, B Boston, RA Dunn… - Authorea …, 2024 - essopenarchive.org
Reprocessed and newly acquired seismic data provide new constraints on lithospheric
flexure profiles beneath the Hawaiian Islands. We use these new observations and three …