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Plume IV abstracts

Penrose Conference

Plume IV: Beyond the Plume Hypothesis
Tests of the plume paradigm and alternatives

August 25th – 29th, 2003, Hveragerdi, Iceland

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The abstracts and other conference material will be reproduced on paper as "The Hotspot Handbook" which will be distributed to participants at the meeting. The approved citation style for these abstracts is illustrated by this example:

Anderson, D.L., Plate Tectonics: The General Theory, abstract in The Hotspot Handbook, Proceedings of Penrose Conference Plume IV: Beyond the Plume Hypothesis, Hveragerdi, Iceland, August 2003.

Don L. Anderson California Institute of Technology, USA	What is a plume? Plate Tectonics: The General Theory
Ayalew Dereje Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia	Evidence for intermediate composition in bimodal basalt-rhyolite large igneous province
Ken Bailey Univ. Bristol, UK	Tristan volcano complex: oceanic end-point of a major African lineament
Tiffany Barry Cardiff University, UK	Cenozoic intraplate volcanism in Mongolia; if not a mantle plume then what?
Erin Beutel College of Charleston, USA	Lithospheric stress state responsible for hotspots at ridge-transform intersections?
Axel Bjornsson University of Akureyri, Iceland	In search for an Iceland plume: Long period magnetotellurics
Enrico Bonatti Istituto di Geologia Marina-CNR, Italy	Is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge becoming hotter with time?
Francoise Chalot-Prat Nancy University, France	Volcanism synchronous with mantle exhumation at the axial zone of a fossil slow spreading ocean: evidences from the Chenaillet ophiolite (Franco-Italian Alps)
Richard Chamberlin New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, USA	Oligocene calderas, mafic lavas and radiating mafic dikes of the Socorro-Magdalena magmatic system, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico: surface expression of a miniplume?
Robert Christiansen U.S. Geological Survey, USA	Structural control and plate-tectonic origin of the Yellowstone melting anomaly
Corrado Cigolini University of Torino, Italy	The search for a primitive magma at Mount Vesuvius: possible role of a MORB-derived picrite in the genesis of Vesuvian magmas
Marc Davies Open University, UK	The Origin of High-Ti Picrites from the Ethiopian Flood Basalt Province
Don DePaolo University of California at Berkeley, USA	Geochemical structure of the Hawaiian plume: Results from the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project
Henry Dick Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA	How much heterogeneity in the mantle MORB source?
Carlo Doglioni Università La Sapienza, Italy	On the westward drift of the lithosphere
Adam Dziewonski Harvard University	Global seismic tomography:What we really can say and what we make up
Wolf Elston University of New Mexico, USA	The Proterozoic Bushveld complex, South Africa: Plume, astrobleme or both?
Zuzana Fekiacova Universität Mainz, Germany	Tertiary Eifel volcanism – intraplate mantle plume or extension-related activity?
Carol Finn U.S. Geological Survey, USA	Definition of a Cenozoic alkaline magmatic province in the southwest Pacific without rift or plume origin
Godfrey Fitton University of Edinburgh, UK	A plume origin for the Ontong Java plateau?
Martin Flower University of Illinois, USA	Collision-induced mantle flow during Tethyan closure: a link between magmatism, lithosphere ‘escape’, and arc-trench rollback?
Gillian R. Foulger University of Durham, UK	An alternative model for Iceland & the North Atlantic Igneous Province On the apparent eastward migration of the spreading ridge in Iceland The Emperor and Hawaiian volcanic chains
Fred Frey MIT, USA	The Kerguelen Plume: What We Have Learned From ~120 Myr of Volcanism
Geist Dennis University of Idaho	Perturbations to the Galapagos hotspot due to interactions with the Galapagos spreading center
Steven Golden Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany	In search for an Iceland plume: Long period magnetotellurics
David Green Australian National University, Australia	Primary magmas at mid-ocean ridges, ‘hot-spots’and other intraplate settings: constraints on mantle potential temperatures
Gudmundur Gudfinsson Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA	Contrasting origins of the most magnesian glasses from Iceland and Hawaii
Giuseppe Guzzetta Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy	Global departure from equilibrium in a self-gravitating system and global tectonics Convection in a self-gravitating system
Warren Hamilton Colorado School of Mines, USA	An alternative Venus – plume-free planet preserves pre-3.9 Ga accretionary surface
Karen Harpp Colgate University, USA	Alternative mechanisms for volcanic activity in hotspot-ridge systems: The northern Galapagos province
Anne M. Hofmeister Washington University, Missouri, USA	Evidence for layered mantle convection: implications for lower mantle plumes
Lirim Hoxha Albanian Geological Survey, Albania	A schematic comparison between Albanian ophiolites with idealized ophiolite sequence, Penrose conference
Gregory Huffman Laurentian University, Canada	Variations in the trace-element systematics of the mafic rocks from Archean Belleterre-Angliers Greenstone Belt, SE Superior Province, Canada: A product of contamination, source variation, or both?
Phillip D. Ihinger Univ. Wisconsin, USA	Plume magmatism and mantle convection: Revising the standard model
Sveinn P. Jakobsson Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Iceland	Volcanic systems and segmentation of the plate boundary in SW-Iceland
Kevin Johnson Bishop Museum and University of Hawaii	Temporal variation of Hawaiian plume composition: Evidence from Hana ridge (submarine Haleakala volcano), Hawaii
Bruce R. Julian U.S. Geological Survey, USA	What can seismology say about hot spots?
Donna Jurdy Northwestern University, USA	Upwellings on Venus: Evidence from coronae and craters
Scott King Purdue University, USA	Edge driven convection and Iceland
Vlad Manea Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico	Mantle wedge flow and thermal models for the central Mexican subduction zone
Jose Mangas Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain	Magmatic processes in the oceanic lithosphere: characterization of the ultramafic and mafic materials from the Holocene volcanic centers of Bandama and La Caldera de Pinos de Gáldar (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands)
Greg McHone University of Connecticut, USA	Volcanic features of the central Atlantic ocean: Tectonic and magmatic models
Jean-Paul Montagner Institut de Physique du Globe, France	Plume-lithosphere interactions: Cases of Afar (Africa), and Pacific hotspots
Raffaella Montelli Princeton University, USA	Finite frequency tomography reveals a variety of plumes in the mantle
James H. Natland University of Miami, USA	What really happened in the Pacific? What’s going on at Iceland?
Yaoling Niu University of Houston, USA	"Plume-ridge interactions" as a consequence of ridge suction
Amos Nur Stanford University, USA	What's driving what?
John O'Connor Christian-Albrechts University, Germany	Distinguishing local from deep sources using high-resolution age-mapping of oceanic-hotspot volcanism?
Mike O'Hara Cardiff University, UK	Mantle plumes: fertile? fecund? phantasmagorical? or simply fantastic? PIMMs anyone?
Angelo Peccerillo University of Perugia, Italy	Geochemical and isotopic variability of plio-quaternary magmatism in italy : plume vs. shallow mantle processes
Brian Pope Saint Louis University, USA	Is hot spot magmatism, like Hawaii, coming from shallow mantle
Dean Presnall University of Texas & Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA	Petrological Constraints on Potential Temperature
Hannah L. Redmond Purdue University, USA	Tharsis Rise, Mars: Is there room for a plume?
Will Sager Texas A&M University, USA	Tectonic evolution of Shatsky Rise: A plateau formed by a plume head or not?
Kamal Sharma Government Postgraduate College, India	Malani Magmatism of Northwestern Indian Shield: Implications of Mantle Plume?
Hetu C. Sheth Indian Institute of Technology, India	The Deccan beyond the plume hypothesis
Olgeir Sigmarsson Universite Blaise Pascal, France & University of Iceland	Geographical variations of mantle source fertility beneath Iceland
John Sinton University of Hawaii, USA	Chemical Variations and Melting Systematics along the Western Galápagos Spreading Center, 90.5° - 98°W
Yvonne Smit Université Blaise Pascal, France	Dynamics of the Iceland plume: Recycling the Iapetus ocean?
Alan Smith CIE-UNAM, Mexico	The Fate of Subducted Oceanic Crust and the Sources of Intraplate Volcanism The Regular Distribution of Intraplate Volcanism in the Pacific Basin
Suzanne Smrekar Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA	Venus as a mantle plume laboratory
Carol Stein University of Illinois, USA	Spots yes, hot barely or not
Moti Stein Geological Survey of Israel, Israel	The size and fate of the Pan-African plume mantle
Seth Stein Northwestern University	Spots yes, hot barely or not
Ellen R. Stofan Proxemy Research, USA	Morphology and distribution of hotspots on Venus
Reidar G. Trønnes Nordic Volcanological Institute, Iceland	Mantle source composition, melting regime and mantle flow in the NE Atlantic
Peter R. Vogt Naval Research Laboratory, USA	Sea-floor basement morphology: Distinguishing hotspot effects from plate tectonic effects - Examples from Iceland and the Azores
Richard Walker University of Maryland College Park, USA	Isotopic detection of possible core-mantle interactions in plume sources: Rules of engagement
Phil Wannamaker Univ. Utah/EGI, USA	Upper mantle physical state and lower crustal igneous input: A test of current models with data from the U.S. Great Basin
Dayanthie Weeraratne Brown University	An alternative model for the origin of non-hotspot intraplate volcanism in the Pacific
Marge Wilson University of Leeds, UK	Sea-floor spreading and deformation processes in the South Atlantic Ocean: An evaluation of the role of mantle hotspots The geodynamic setting of Tertiary-Quaternary intra-plate magmatism in Europe: The role of asthenospheric diapirs or mantle “hot fingers”
Jerry Winterer Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA	Seamount chains result from episodic changes in in-plate stress that open cracks through the lithosphere and permit magma ascent : they do not require plumes
Donald Wright Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada	Geology, structure, and source of the Kikkertavak anorthosite, northern Labrador, Canada
Gezahegn Yirgu Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia	Lithospheric control on silicic magma generation associated with the Ethiopian flood basalt province
last updated 20th September, 2004

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