Recent papers & books relevant to the debate regarding the origin of hot spots

Ivanov, A.V., Huayiu He, Liekun Yan, Viktor V. Ryabov, Artem Y. Shevko, Stanislav V. Palesskii, Irina V. Nikolaeva, Siberian Traps large igneous province: Evidence for two flood basalt pulses around the Permo-Triassic boundary and in the Middle Triassic, and contemporaneous granitic magmatism, Earth-Science Reviews, 122, 58–76, 2013.

Rudge, J.F., John Maclennan, Andreas Stracke, The geochemical consequences of mixing melts from a heterogeneous mantle, Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta., 11, 112–143, 2013.

Dörr, N., P.D. Clift, F. Lisker and C. Spiegel, Why is Svalbard an island? evidence for two-stage uplift, magmatic underplating and mantle thermal anomalies, Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/tect.20039

Key, Kerry, Steven Constable, Lijun Liu & Anne Pommier, Electrical image of passive mantle upwelling beneath the northern East Pacific Rise, Nature, 495, 499–502, doi:10.1038/nature11932

Foulger, G.R., Giuliano F. Panza, Irina M. Artemieva, Ian D. Bastow, Fabio Cammarano, John R. Evans, Warren B. Hamilton, Bruce R. Julian, Michele Lustrino, Hans Thybo and Tatiana B. Yanovskaya, Caveats on tomographic images, Terra Nova, accepted manuscript online: 13 MAR 2013 02:41PM EST | DOI: 10.1111/ter.12041

Hamelin, C., Antoine Bezos, Laure Dosso, Javier Escartin, Mathilde Cannat, Catherine Mevel, Atypically depleted upper mantle component revealed by Hf isotopes at Lucky Strike segment, Chemical Geology, 341,128-139, 2013.

Day, J.M.D., Hotspot volcanism and highly siderophile elements, Chemical Geology, 341, 50-74, 2013.

Thomson, A. and J. Maclennan, The Distribution of Olivine Compositions in Icelandic Basalts and
Picrites, J. Petrology, 54, 745-768, 2013.

Naif, S., K. Key, S. Constable & R. L. Evans, Melt-rich channel observed at the lithosphere– asthenosphere boundary, Nature, 495, 356–359, 2013.

Garapic, G., U.H. Faul and E. Brisson, High-resolution imaging of the melt distribution in partially molten upper mantle rocks: evidence for wetted two-grain boundaries, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004547

Yan-Jie Tang, Hong-Fu Zhang, Ji-Feng Ying, Ben-Xun Su, Widespread refertilization of cratonic and circum-cratonic lithospheric mantle, Earth-Science Reviews, 118, 45-68, 2013.

Torsvik, T.H., H. Amundsen, .H. Hartz, F.o Corfu, .k Kusznir, C. Gaina, P.V. Doubrovine, B. Steinberger, L.D. Ashwal & B. Jamtveit, A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean, Nature Geoscience, 6, 223–227, 2013, doi:10.1038/ngeo1736

Ivanov, A.V., H. He, L. Yan, V.V. Ryabov, A.Y. Shevko, S.V. Palesskii, I.V. Nikolaev, Siberian Traps large igneous province: Evidence for two flood basalt pulses around the Permo-Triassic boundary and in the Middle Triassic, and contemporaneous granitic magmatism, Earth-Science Reviews, 122, 58–76, 2013.

Ruedas, T., Paul J. Tackley, Sean C. Solomon, Thermal and compositional evolution of the martian mantle: Effects of phase transitions and melting, PEPI, 216, 32-58, 2013.

Zellmer G.F., H. C. Sheth, Y. Iizuka & Yi-Jen Lai, Remobilization of granitoid rocks through mafic recharge:
evidence from basalt-trachyte mingling and hybridization in the Manori–Gorai area, Mumbai, Deccan Traps, Bull. Volc., 74, 47–66, DOI 10.1007/s00445-011-0498-4, 2012.

Huang, S., S.B. Jacobsen, S. Mukhopadhyay, 147Sm-143Nd systematics of Earth are inconsistent with a superchondritic Sm/Nd ratio, PNAS, doi/10.1073/pnas.1222252110.

Foulger, G.R., G.F. Panza, I.M. Artemieva, I.D. Bastow5 F. Cammarano, J.R. Evans, W.B. Hamilton, B.R. Julian, M. Lustrino, H. Thyb4 and T.B. Yanovskaya, Caveats on tomographic images, Earth-Sci. Rev., doi: 10.1111/ter.12041, 2013.

Bryan, S.E. & L. Ferrari, Large igneous provinces and silicic large igneous provinces: Progress in our understanding over the last 25 years, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., published online on 25 April 2013 as doi:10.1130/B30820.1, 2013.

Adam, C., P. Madureira, J.M. Miranda, N. Lourenço, M. Yoshida, D. Fitzenz, Mantle dynamics and characteristics of the Azores plateau, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 362, 258-271, 2013.

Barruol, G., F.R. Fontaine, Mantle flow beneath La Réunion hotspot track from SKS splitting, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 362, 108-121, 2013.

Marchesi, C., C.J. Garrido, D. Bosch, J.-L. Bodinier, F. Gervilla, K. Hidas, Mantle refertilization by melts of crustal-derived garnet pyroxenite: Evidence from the Ronda peridotite massif, southern Spain, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 362, 66-75, 2013.

Exploring Hawaiian Volcanism, AGU Chapman Conference: Hawaiian Volcanoes, From Source to Surface; Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 20–24 August 2012

Zhou, H. & H. J. B. Dick, Thin crust as evidence for depleted mantle supporting the Marion Rise, Nature, 494, 195–200, 2013, doi:10.1038/nature11842 News & Views: Maclennan, J., All rise for the case of the missing magma, Nature, 494, 182–183, 2013, doi:10.1038/nature11950.