Plates, plumes, and planetary processes / edited by Gillian R. Foulger, Donna M. Jurdy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foulger, Gillian R., 1952-

Jurdy, Donna M., 1946-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 430.

Special paper ; 430

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mantle plumes.

Volcanic plumes.

Volcanism.

Plate tectonics.

Seismology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 997 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This beautiful compendium of work documents the state-of-play of the current fundamental debate on whether or not mantle plumes exist and the origin of "hot spot" volcanism on the surface of Earth, Mars, and Venus. The book is fully interdisciplinary and encompasses all branches of earth science, including geophysics, geochemistry, heat, temperature, tectonics, petrology, mantle dynamics, impacts, and syntheses reconciling several branches of earth science. Included are chapters that advocate the plume model as well as ones that advocate alternative models. Most chapters are designed to be accessible to students and scientists in different subdisciplines within the earth sciences, making them doubly valuable to specialists and nonspecialists alike. The book is designed to enjoy a long lifetime of usefulness, functioning as both a landmark document for the subject today and a valuable reference work for students, scholars, and informed lay people for the future. It will be equally valuable for supporting advanced undergraduate or postgraduate courses and research scientists working at the forefront of "hot spot" science, and is an essential addition to the bookshelves of every science library, earth science teacher, and research scientist who aspires to push back the frontiers of this exciting subject. With over 180 color plates, it will be a beautiful addition to the library of anyone fascinated by volcanoes--one of nature's most exciting and extraordinary phenomena."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

"Plate" model for the genesis of melting anomalies / Gillian R. Foulger

Origins of the plume hypothesis and some of its implications / Norman H. Sleep

Eclogite engine : chemical geodynamics as a Galileo thermometer / Don L. Anderson

Plate velocities in the hotspot reference frame / W. Jason Morgan and Jason Phipps Morgan

Implications of lower-mantle structural heterogeneity for the existence and nature of whole-mantle plumes / Edward J. Garnero, Thorne Lay, and Allen McNamara

Structure of thermal plumes and geophysical observations / Scott D. King and Hannah L. Redmond

Seismic observations of transition-zone discontinuities beneath hotspot locations / Arwen Deuss

Lower-mantle material properties and convection models of multiscale plumes / Ctirad Matyska and David A. Yuen

Global plume-fed asthenosphere flow

I : motivation and model development ; Global plume-fed asthenosphere flow

II : application to the geochemical segmentation of mid-ocean ridges / Michiko Yamamoto, Jason Phipps Morgan, and W. Jason Morgan

Hawaiian SWELL pilot experiment

evidence for lithosphere rejuvenation from ocean bottom surface wave data / Gabi Laske, Jason Phipps Morgan, and John A. Orcutt

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

Potential effects of hydrothermal circulation and magmatism on heatflow at hotspot swells / Carol A. Stein and Richard P. Von Herzen

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

Quantitative tool for detecting alteration in undisturbed rocks and minerals

I : water, chemical weathering, and atmospheric argon ; Quantitative tool for detecting alteration in undisturbed rocks and minerals

II : application to argon ages related to hotspots / Ajoy K. Baksi

Divergence between paleomagnetic and hotspot-model-predicted polar wander for the Pacific plate with implications for hotspot fixity / William W. Sager

Global kinematics in deep versus shallow hotspot reference frames / Marco Cuffaro and Carlo Doglioni

Ridge-crossing seamount chains : a nonthermal approach / Erin K. Beutel and Don L. Anderson

OIB paradox / J. Godfrey Fitton

Nb and the role of magma mixing at the East Pacific Rise and Iceland / James H. Natland

Speculations on Cretaceous tectonic history of the northwest Pacific and a tectonic origin for the Hawaii hotspot / Ian O. Norton

Plate model for Jurassic to Recent intraplate volcanism in the Pacific Ocean basin / Alan D. Smith

Propagation of the Hawaiian-Emperor volcano chain by Pacific plate cooling stress / William D. Stuart, Gillian R. Foulger, and Michael Barall

Geophysical characterization of mantle melting anomalies : a crustal view / Valentí Sallarès and Alcinoe Calahorrano

North Atlantic Igneous Province : a review of models for its formation / Romain Meyer, Jolante van Wijk, and Laurent Gernigon

Origin of the Bermuda volcanoes and the Bermuda Rise : history, observations, models, and puzzles / Peter R. Vogt and Wu-Yeol Jung

Lithospheric control of Gondwana breakup : implications of a trans-Gondwana icosahedral fracture system / James W. Sears

Origin of post-Paleozoic magmatism in eastern Paraguay / Piero Comin-Chiaramonti [and others]

Origin of the Columbia River flood basalt province : plume versus nonplume models / Peter R. Hooper [and others]

Evaluation of different models for the origin of the Siberian Traps / Alexei V. Ivanov

Eastern Anatolia : a hotspot in a collision zone without a mantle plume / Mehmet Keskin

Phantom plumes in Europe and the circum-Mediterranean region / Michele Lustrino and Eugenio Carminati

Mechanisms of crustal growth in large igneous provinces : the north Atlantic province as a case study / Laurent Geoffroy [and others]

K-T magmatism and basin tectonism in western Rajasthan, India, results from extensional tectonics and not from Réunion plume activity / Kamal K. Sharma

Plume-related regional prevolcanic uplift in the Deccan Traps : absence of evidence, evidence of absence / H.C. Sheth

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

Bimodal large igneous province and the plume debate : the Paleoproterozoic Dongargarh Group, central India / Sarajit Sensarma

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

Coronae of Venus : impact, plume, or other origin? / Donna M. Jurdy and Paul R. Stoddard

Alternative Venus / Warren B. Hamilton

Interaction between local magma ocean evolution and mantle dynamics on Mars / Chris C. Reese, Viatcheslav S. Solomatov, and Christopher P. Orth

Mantle plume debate in undergraduate geoscience education : overview, history, and recommendations / Brennan T. Jordan

Graphic solutions to problems of plumacy / John C. Holden and Peter R. Vogt

Plumacy reprise / Peter R. Vogt and John C. Holden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived from print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Plates, plumes, and planetary processes.

OCLC:

976436339

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