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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