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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