Another Nail in the Plume Coffin?

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Published Online July 27, 2006
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1131298

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Submitted on July 14, 2006
Accepted on July 20, 2006

Another Nail in the Plume Coffin?

Marcia K. McNutt ¹^*

¹ Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Marcia K. McNutt , E-mail: mcnutt{at}mbari.org

At least one chain of hot-spot volcanoes is not caused by aplume rising up from the core-mantle boundary, calling for areexamination of the plume hypothesis.

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REPORTS Volcanism in Response to Plate Flexure: Naoto Hirano, Eiichi Takahashi, Junji Yamamoto, Natsue Abe, Stephanie P. Ingle, Ichiro Kaneoka, Takafumi Hirata, Jun-Ichi Kimura, Teruaki Ishii, Yujiro Ogawa, Shiki Machida, and Kiyoshi Suyehiro (8 September 2006)
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