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Table of Contents - Special Paper 352

Mantle Plumes: Their Identification Through Time

Introduction		1
Section I. Overview

1.	Identification of ancient mantle plumes Ian H. Campbell	5
Section II: Lessons from Mesozoic and Cenozoic Examples
2.	Cenozoic plume evolution and flood basalts in Yemen: A key to understanding older examples Martin Menzies, Joel Baker, and Gilles Chazot	23
3.	Intraplate magmatism related to short-wavelength convective instabilities in the upper mantle: Evidence from the Tertiary-Quaternary volcanic province of western and central Europe Marjorie Wilson and Robert Patterson	37
4.	Large igneous provinces: Progenitors of some ophiolites? Millard F. Coffin and Olav Eldholm	59
5.	The location of mantle-plume centers during the initial stages of Gondwana breakup Bryan C. Storey, Philip T. Leat, and Julie K. Ferris	71
Section III: Lessons from Mars and Venus
6.	Large flow fields on Venus: Implications for plumes, rift associations, and resurfacing Kari P. Magee and James W. Head	81
7.	Contractional effects of mantle plumes on Earth, Mars, and Venus Daniel Mège and Richard E. Ernst	103
8.	Uniformitarian plume tectonics: The post-Archean Earth and Mars Daniel Mège	141
9.	Concentric dikes on the flanks of Pavonis Mons: Implications for the evolution of martian shield volcanoes and mantle plumes Laurent G.J. Montési	165
Section IV: Techniques to Locate Plumes
10.	Elevation as indicator of mantle-plume activity A.M. Celâl Sengör	183
11.	The sedimentary record of mantle-plume uplift Robert H. Rainbird and Richard E. Ernst	227
12.	The use of mafic dike swarms in identifying and locating mantle plumes Richard E. Ernst and Kenneth L. Buchan	247
13.	Carbonatites: Relationships to mantle-plume activity Keith Bell	267
14.	Deep-mantle plumes and ore deposits Don Schissel and Ross Smail	291
Section V: Early Precambrian Plumes
15.	Oceanic upwelling and mantle-plume activity: Paleomagnetic tests of ideas on the source of the Fe in early Precambrian iron formations Dallas Abbott and Ann Isley	323
16.	Archean mantle plumes: Evidence from greenstone belt geochemistry Kirsty Y. Tomlinson and Kent C. Condie	341
17.	The oldest continental and oceanic plateaus: Geochemistry of basalts and komatiites of the Pilbara Craton, Australia Nicholas Arndt, Gudrun Bruzak, and Thomas Reischmann	359
Section VI: Compilations
18.	Rifts of the world A.M. Celâl Sengör and Boris A. Natal'in	389
19.	Large mafic magmatic events through time and links to mantle-plume heads Richard E. Ernst and Kenneth L. Buchan	483
Index