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Table of Contents - Special Paper 430

Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes

edited by Gillian R. Foulger and Donna M. Jurdy


Preface vii
Scope of the Volume, the Review Process, and Acknowledgments ix

Plates and Plumes
1. The “plate” model for the genesis of melting anomalies
Gillian R. Foulger
1
2. Origins of the plume hypothesis and some of its implications
Norman H. Sleep
29
3. The eclogite engine: Chemical geodynamics as a Galileo thermometer
Don L. Anderson
47
4. Plate velocities in the hotspot reference frame
W. Jason Morgan and Jason Phipps Morgan
65

Mantle Convection and Seismology
5. Implications of lower-mantle structural heterogeneity for the existence and nature of whole-mantle plumes
Edward J. Garnero, Thorne Lay, and Allen McNamara
79
6. The structure of thermal plumes and geophysical observations
Scott D. King and Hannah L. Redmond
103
7. Seismic observations of transition-zone discontinuities beneath hotspot locations
Arwen Deuss
121
8. Lower-mantle material properties and convection models of multiscale plumes
Ctirad Matyska and David A. Yuen
137
9. Global plume-fed asthenosphere flow—I: Motivation and model development
Michiko Yamamoto, Jason Phipps Morgan, and W. Jason Morgan
165
10. Global plume-fed asthenosphere flow—II: Application to the geochemical segmentation of mid-ocean ridges
Michiko Yamamoto, Jason Phipps Morgan, and W. Jason Morgan
189
11. The Hawaiian SWELL pilot experiment—Evidence for lithosphere rejuvenation from ocean bottom surface wave data
Gabi Laske, Jason Phipps Morgan, and John A. Orcutt
209

Heat and Temperature
12. Crystallization temperatures of tholeiite parental liquids: Implications for the existence of thermally driven mantle plumes
Trevor J. Falloon, David H. Green, and Leonid V. Danyushevsky
235
13. Potential effects of hydrothermal circulation and magmatism on heatflow at hotspot swells
Carol A. Stein and Richard P. Von Herzen
261
14. Crustal geotherm in southern Deccan basalt province, India: The Moho is as cold as adjoining cratons
P. Senthil Kumar, Rajeev Menon, and G. Koti Reddy
275

Geochronology, Hotspot Fixity, and Reference Frames
15. A quantitative tool for detecting alteration in undisturbed rocks and minerals—I:Water, chemical weathering, and atmospheric argon
Ajoy K. Baksi
285
16. A quantitative tool for detecting alteration in undisturbed rocks and minerals—II: Application to argon ages related to hotspots
Ajoy K. Baksi
305
17. Divergence between paleomagnetic and hotspot-model–predicted polar wander for the Pacific plate with implications for hotspot fixity
William W. Sager
335
18. Global kinematics in deep versus shallow hotspot reference frames
Marco Cuffaro and Carlo Doglioni
359
19. Ridge-crossing seamount chains: A nonthermal approach
Erin K. Beutel and Don L. Anderson
375

Oceanic Melting Anomalies
20. The OIB paradox
J. Godfrey Fitton
387
21. ΔNb and the role of magma mixing at the East Pacific Rise and Iceland
James H. Natland
413
22. Speculations on Cretaceous tectonic history of the northwest Pacific and a tectonic origin for the Hawaii hotspot
Ian O. Norton
451
23. A plate model for Jurassic to Recent intraplate volcanism in the Pacific Ocean basin
Alan D. Smith
471
24. Propagation of the Hawaiian-Emperor volcano chain by Pacific plate cooling stress
William D. Stuart, Gillian R. Foulger, and Michael Barall
497
25. Geophysical characterization of mantle melting anomalies: A crustal view
Valentí Sallarès and Alcinoe Calahorrano
507
26. The North Atlantic Igneous Province: A review of models for its formation
Romain Meyer, Jolante van Wijk, and Laurent Gernigon
525
27. Origin of the Bermuda volcanoes and the Bermuda Rise: History, observations, models, and puzzles
Peter R. Vogt and Wu-Yeol Jung
553

Continental Melting Anomalies
28. Lithospheric control of Gondwana breakup: Implications of a trans-Gondwana icosahedral fracture system
James W. Sears
593
29. The origin of post-Paleozoic magmatism in eastern Paraguay
Piero Comin-Chiaramonti, Andrea Marzoli, Celso de Barros Gomes, Anderson Milan, Claudio Riccomini, Victor Fernandez Velázquez, Marta M.S. Mantovani, Paul Renne, Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari, and Paulo Marcos Vasconcelos
603
30. The origin of the Columbia River flood basalt province: Plume versus nonplume models
Peter R. Hooper, Victor E. Camp, Stephen P. Reidel, and Martin E. Ross
635
31. Evaluation of different models for the origin of the Siberian Traps
Alexei V. Ivanov
669
32. Eastern Anatolia: A hotspot in a collision zone without a mantle plume
Mehmet Keskin
693
33. Phantom plumes in Europe and the circum-Mediterranean region
Michele Lustrino and Eugenio Carminati
723
34. Mechanisms of crustal growth in large igneous provinces: The north Atlantic province as a case study
Laurent Geoffroy, Charles Aubourg, Jean-Paul Callot, and Jean-Alix Barrat
747
35. K-T magmatism and basin tectonism in western Rajasthan, India, results from extensional tectonics and not from Réunion plume activity
Kamal K. Sharma
775
36. Plume-related regional prevolcanic uplift in the Deccan Traps: Absence of evidence, evidence of absence
H.C. Sheth
785
37. Nd and Sr isotope systematics and geochemistry of a plume-related Early Cretaceous alkaline-mafic-ultramafic igneous complex from Jasra, Shillong plateau, northeastern India
Rajesh K. Srivastava and Anup K. Sinha
815
38. A bimodal large igneous province and the plume debate: The Paleoproterozoic Dongargarh Group, central India
Sarajit Sensarma
831
39. Thick, high-velocity crust in the Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China: Evidence for crustal growth by magmatic underplating or intraplating
Yi-Gang Xu and Bin He
841

Planetary Evolution
40. The coronae of Venus: Impact, plume, or other origin?
Donna M. Jurdy and Paul R. Stoddard
859
41. An alternative Venus
Warren B. Hamilton
879
42. Interaction between local magma ocean evolution and mantle dynamics on Mars
Chris C. Reese, Viatcheslav S. Solomatov, and Christopher P. Orth
913

Education
43. The mantle plume debate in undergraduate geoscience education: Overview, history, and recommendations
Brennan T. Jordan
933

Platonics and Plumacy
44. Graphic solutions to problems of plumacy
J.C. Holden and P.R. Vogt
945
45. Plumacy reprise
P.R. Vogt and J.C. Holden
955