| Description |
ix, 997 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Special paper ; 430 |
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Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 430
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| Contents |
"Plate" model for the genesis of melting anomalies / Gillian R. Foulger -- Origins of the plume hypothesis and some of its implications / Norman H. Sleep -- Eclogite engine : chemical geodynamics as a Galileo thermometer / Don L. Anderson -- Plate velocities in the hotspot reference frame / W. Jason Morgan and Jason Phipps Morgan -- Implications of lower-mantle structural heterogeneity for the existence and nature of whole-mantle plumes / Edward J. Garnero, Thorne Lay, and Allen McNamara -- Structure of thermal plumes and geophysical observations / Scott D. King and Hannah L. Redmond -- Seismic observations of transition-zone discontinuities beneath hotspot locations / Arwen Deuss -- Lower-mantle material properties and convection models of multiscale plumes / Ctirad Matyska and David A. Yuen -- Global plume-fed asthenosphere flow-- I : motivation and model development Global plume-fed asthenosphere flow-- II : application to the geochemical segmentation of mid-ocean ridges / Michiko Yamamoto, Jason Phipps Morgan, and W. Jason Morgan -- Hawaiian SWELL pilot experiment-- evidence for lithosphere rejuvenation from ocean bottom surface wave data / Gabi Laske, Jason Phipps Morgan, and John A. Orcutt -- Crystallization temperatures of tholeiite parental liquids : implications for the existence of thermally driven mantle plumes / Trevor J. Falloon, David H. Green, and Leonid V. Danyushevsky -- Potential effects of hydrothermal circulation and magmatism on heatflow at hotspot swells / Carol A. Stein and Richard P. Von Herzen -- Crustal geotherm in southern Deccan basalt province, India : the Moho is as cold as adjoining cratons / P. Senthil Kumar, Rajeev Menon, and G. Koti Reddy -- Quantitative tool for detecting alteration in undisturbed rocks and minerals-- I : water, chemical weathering, and atmospheric argon Quantitative tool for detecting alteration in undisturbed rocks and minerals-- II : application to argon ages related to hotspots / Ajoy K. Baksi -- Divergence between paleomagnetic and hotspot-model-predicted polar wander for the Pacific plate with implications for hotspot fixity / William W. Sager -- Global kinematics in deep versus shallow hotspot reference frames / Marco Cuffaro and Carlo Doglioni -- Ridge-crossing seamount chains : a nonthermal approach / Erin K. Beutel and Don L. Anderson -- OIB paradox / J. Godfrey Fitton -- Nb and the role of magma mixing at the East Pacific Rise and Iceland / James H. Natland -- Speculations on Cretaceous tectonic history of the northwest Pacific and a tectonic origin for the Hawaii hotspot / Ian O. Norton -- Plate model for Jurassic to Recent intraplate volcanism in the Pacific Ocean basin / Alan D. Smith -- Propagation of the Hawaiian-Emperor volcano chain by Pacific plate cooling stress / William D. Stuart, Gillian R. Foulger, and Michael Barall -- Geophysical characterization of mantle melting anomalies : a crustal view / Valentí Sallarès and Alcinoe Calahorrano -- North Atlantic Igneous Province : a review of models for its formation / Romain Meyer, Jolante van Wijk, and Laurent Gernigon -- Origin of the Bermuda volcanoes and the Bermuda Rise : history, observations, models, and puzzles / Peter R. Vogt and Wu-Yeol Jung -- Lithospheric control of Gondwana breakup : implications of a trans-Gondwana icosahedral fracture system / James W. Sears -- Origin of post-Paleozoic magmatism in eastern Paraguay / Piero Comin-Chiaramonti ... [et al.] -- Origin of the Columbia River flood basalt province : plume versus nonplume models / Peter R. Hooper ... [et al.] -- Evaluation of different models for the origin of the Siberian Traps / Alexei V. Ivanov -- Eastern Anatolia : a hotspot in a collision zone without a mantle plume / Mehmet Keskin -- Phantom plumes in Europe and the circum-Mediterranean region / Michele Lustrino and Eugenio Carminati -- Mechanisms of crustal growth in large igneous provinces : the north Atlantic province as a case study / Laurent Geoffroy ... [et al.] -- K-T magmatism and basin tectonism in western Rajasthan, India, results from extensional tectonics and not from Réunion plume activity / Kamal K. Sharma -- Plume-related regional prevolcanic uplift in the Deccan Traps : absence of evidence, evidence of absence / H. C. Sheth -- Nd and Sr isotope systematics and geochemistry of a plume-related Early Cretaceous alkaline-mafic-ultramafic igneous complex from Jasra, Shillong plateau, northeastern India / Rajesh K. Srivastava and Anup K. Sinha -- Bimodal large igneous province and the plume debate : the Paleoproterozoic Dongargarh Group, central India / Sarajit Sensarma -- Thick, high-velocity crust in the Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China : evidence for crustal growth by magmatic underplating or intraplating / Yi-Gang Xu and Bin He -- Coronae of Venus : impact, plume, or other origin? / Donna M. Jurdy and Paul R. Stoddard -- Alternative Venus / Warren B. Hamilton -- Interaction between local magma ocean evolution and mantle dynamics on Mars / Chris C. Reese, Viatcheslav S. Solomatov, and Christopher P. Orth -- Mantle plume debate in undergraduate geoscience education : overview, history, and recommendations / Brennan T. Jordan -- Graphic solutions to problems of plumacy / John C. Holden and Peter R. Vogt -- Plumacy reprise / Peter R. Vogt and John C. Holden |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mantle plumes.
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Volcanic plumes.
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Volcanism.
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Plate tectonics.
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Seismology.
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| Author |
Foulger, Gillian R., 1952-
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Jurdy, Donna M., 1946-
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| LC no. |
2007009601 |
| ISBN |
9780813724300 paperback alkaline paper |
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