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Originally published in Science Express on 27 July 2006
Science 8 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5792, pp. 1394 - 1395
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131298
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Perspectives

GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: Another Nail in the Plume Coffin?

Marcia K. McNutt

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

The author is at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA. E-mail: mcnutt{at}mbari.org

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