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Plumes exist because...

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:: A glance at today's paper::

Yaxley, G.M. & G.P. Brey, The Roles of Petrology and Experimental Petrology in Understanding Global Tectonics, J. Pet., 49, 587-589, 2008.

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Recycled crust controls contrasting source compositions of Mesozoic and Cenozoic basalts in the North China Craton

Y. Liu, S. Gao, P.B. Kelemen & W. Xu

PDF & Powerpoint presentations

EGU 2008
Vienna, Austria

Session GD05
The Origins of Melting Anomalies

Abstracts

Mercury’s “spider” – another giant caldera volcano?

G.J.H. McCall

Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton
S. Gao, R.L. Rudnick, W.-L Xu, H.-L. Yuan, Y.-S. Liu, R.J. Walker, I.S. Puchtel, X. Liu, H. Huang, X.-R. Wang& J. Yang

No plumes along mid-ocean ridges

D. Presnall

2008 Goldschmidt Meeting
Vancouver, Canada, July 13-18, 2008

Session 05c
LIPS, hot spots and intraplate magmatism

Conveners: G. Ito & B. Steinberger

P^4 Book

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LIPs

Planetary

Talk about plumes

Plume coffin

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9th May, 2008
Dear WM, I bring to your attention our recent paper Clouard, V. and M. Gerbault, Break-up spots: could the Pacific open as a consequence of plate kinematics?, EPSL, 265, 195-208, 2008. Two comments were also published, one in Nature Geoscience, and the other one in New Scientist. I would like to thank you very much for your management of the useful "mantleplumes" website.–Valerie Clouard

7th March, 2008
Dear WM, Andrew Alden, the host of the science blog About.com (Geology) has posted another interesting discussion of hotspot models "A Hotspot Alternative". This news website is a popular source of geological information from a very respected educator.–Greg McHone

29th Feb, 2008
Dear WM, A Russian saying is that bad is the scholar who doesn ’t want to become a great scientist. In his recent correspondence to PLoS Computation Biology ‘On the process of becoming a great scientist’ Morgan Giddings provides an excellent recipe for how to achieve this. We need to be open to challenging ideas, courageous enough to speak out irrespective of our age or status, and wise enough to encourage others to do the same, even if it flies in the face of our own theories.–Alexei Ivanov

28th Jan, 2008
Dear WM, Check out the movies of plume convection at Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (click on the pictures).–Jack Holden

10th Jan, 2008
Dear WM, This is one of the most informative websites I've visited. It has been a tremendous help in keeping up with the latest literature.
Keep up the good work.–Vince Neall

7th Jan, 2008
Dear WM, PDFs of most of my publications since 1958 are now available on line.–Don Anderson

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