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Recent papers & books relevant to the debate regarding the origin of hot spots
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last updated 4th May, 2012

Pavlis, G.L., K. Sigloch, S. Burdick, M.J. Fouch, F.L. Vernon, Unraveling the geometry of the Farallon plate: Synthesis of three-dimensional imaging results from USArray, Tectonophysics, 532–535, 82-102, 2012.

Campbell I.H. & H. St C. O’Neill, Evidence against a chondritic Earth, Nature, 483, 553–558, doi:10.1038/nature10901

Tikhomirov, P.L., E.A. Kalinina, T. Moriguti, A. Makishima, K. Kobayashi, I.Yu. Cherepanova, E. Nakamura, The Cretaceous Okhotsk–Chukotka Volcanic Belt (NE Russia): Geology, geochronology, magma output rates, and implications on the genesis of silicic LIPs, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 221-222, 14-32, 2-12.

Paczkowski, K., D. Bercovici, W. Landuyt, M.T. Brandon, Drip instabilities of continental lithosphere: acceleration and entrainment by damage, published online: 14 MAR 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05398.x

Schmerr, N., The Gutenberg Discontinuity: Melt at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary, Science, 335, 1480-1483, 10.1126/science.1215433.

Ray, J.S., J.J. Mahoney, R.A. Duncan, J. Ray, P. Wessel and D.F. Naar, Chronology and Geochemistry of Lavas from the Nazca Ridge and Easter Seamount Chain: an ∼30 Myr Hotspot Record, J. Pet., advance access, 2012.

Artemieva, I.M., R. Meissner, Crustal thickness controlled by plate tectonics: A review of crust–mantle interaction processes illustrated by European examples, Tectonophysics, 530-531, 18-49, 2012.

Svensen, H., F. Corfu, S. Polteau, Ø. Hammer, S. Planke, Rapid magma emplacement in the Karoo Large Igneous Province, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 325-326, 1-9, 2012.

Becker, T. W., On recent seismic tomography for the western United States, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q01W10, 2012.

Payne, S.J., R. McCaffrey, R.W. King and S.A. Kattenhorn, A new interpretation of deformation rates in the Snake River Plain and adjacent basin and range regions based on GPS measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 189, 101-122, 2012.

Foulger, G.R., Are 'hot spots' hot spots?, J. Geodynamics, 58, 1-28, 2012.

Rhodes, J.M., Shichun Huang, Frederick A. Frey, Malcolm Pringle and Guangping Xu, Compositional diversity of Mauna Kea shield lavas recovered by the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project: Inferences on source lithology, magma supply, and the role of multiple volcanoes, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13, Q03014, 28 pp, 2012, doi:10.1029/2011GC003812

Japsen, P., Bonow, J.M., Green, P.F., Cobbold, P.R., Chiossi, D., Lilletveit, R., Magnavita, L.P., Pedreira, A.J., 2012. Episodic burial and exhumation history of NE Brazil after opening of the South Atlantic. Geol. Soc. Am. Bulletin., in press.

Karato, Shun-ichiro, On the origin of the asthenosphere, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 321–322, 95-103, 2012.

Bajolet, F.; Galeano, J.; Funiciello, F.; Moroni, M.; Negredo, A.-M.; Faccenna, C., Continental delamination: Insights from laboratory models, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q02009, 2012.

Hansen, S.E., A.A. Nyblade, M.H. Benoit, Mantle structure beneath Africa and Arabia from adaptively parameterized P-wave tomography: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic Afro-Arabian tectonism, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 319-320, 23-34, 2012.

Afonso, J.C., D.L. Schutt, The effects of polybaric partial melting on density and seismic velocities of mantle restites, Lithos, 134-135, 289-303, 2012.

Collins, John A.; Wolfe, Cecily J.; Laske, Gabi, Shear wave splitting at the Hawaiian hot spot from the PLUME land and ocean bottom seismometer deployments, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q02007, 2012.

Benediktsdóttir, Á.; Hey, R.; Martinez, F.; Höskuldsson, Á., Detailed tectonic evolution of the Reykjanes Ridge during the past 15 Ma, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q02008, 2012.

Liu, Lijun, D.R. Stegman, Origin of Columbia River flood basalt controlled by propagating rupture of the Farallon slab, Nature, 482, 386-389, 2012.

Konter, Jasper G.; Becker, Thorsten W., Shallow lithospheric contribution to mantle plumes revealed by integrating seismic and geochemical data, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q02004, 2012.

Ferrari, L., Orozco-Esquivel, T, Manea, V., Manea, M, The dynamic history of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Mexico subduction zone, Tectonophysics, 522-523,158-175, 2012.

Corti, G., Evolution and characteristics of continental rifting: Analog modeling-inspired view and comparison with examples from the East African Rift System, Tectonophysics, 522-523,1-33, 2012.

Hardebol, N. J.; Pysklywec, R. N.; Stephenson, R., Small-scale convection at a continental back-arc to craton transition: Application to the southern Canadian Cordillera, J. Geophys. Res., 117, No. B1, B01408, 2012.

Kovacs, I., Gy. Falus, G. Stuart, K. Hidas, Cs. Szabó, M.F.J. Flower, E. Hegeus, K. Posgay, L. Zilahi-Sebess, Seismic anisotropy and deformation patterns in upper mantle xenoliths from the central Carpathian–Pannonian region: Asthenospheric flow as a driving force for Cenozoic extension and extrusion?, Tectonophysics, 514-517, 168-179, 2012.

Gorczyk, Weronika, Bruce Hobbs, Taras Gerya, Initiation of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in intra-cratonic settings, Tectonophysics, 514-517, 146-155, 2012.

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