Three distinct types of hotspots in the Earth's mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 295-308

  Courtillot, Vincent ^a   Davaille, Anne ^a   Besse, Jean ^a   Stock, Joann ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Hotspots; Mantle plumes; True polar wander

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; HOT SPOT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; POLAR WANDERING;

EID: 0037428120     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01048-8     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. J.T. Wilson, Evidence from oceanic islands suggesting movement in the Earth, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. A 258 (1965) 145-167.
2. W.J. Morgan, Plate motions and deep convection, Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 132 (1972) 7-22.
3. W.J. Morgan, Hotspot tracks and the opening of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, in: C. Emiliani (Ed.), The Sea, Vol. 7, Wiley Interscience, New York, 1981, pp. 443-487.
4. D.L. Turcotte, E.R. Oxburgh, Mid-plate tectonics, Nature 244 (1973) 337-339.
5. W.J. Morgan, Rodriguez, Darwin, Amsterdam, T, a second type of hotspot island, J. Geophys. Res. 83 (1978) 5355-5360.
6. N.H. Sleep, Hotspots and mantle plumes: Some phenomenology, J. Geophys. Res. 95 (1990) 6715-6736.
7. N.H. Sleep, Ridge-crossing mantle plumes and secondary hotspots, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.
8. V. Clouard, A. Bonneville, How many Pacific hotspots are fed by deep-mantle plumes?, Geology 21 (2001) 695-698.
9. D.L. Anderson, The edges of the mantle, in: M. Gurnis et al. (Eds.), The Core-Mantle Boundary Region, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 1998, pp. 255-271.
10. D.L. Anderson, The thermal state of the upper mantle: No role for mantle plumes, Geophys. Res. Lett. 27 (2000) 3623-3626.
11. G.F. Davies, Ocean bathymetry and mantle convection, 1. Large-scale flow and hotspots, J. Geophys. Res. 93 (1988) 10467-10480.
12. B. Steinberger, Plumes in a convecting mantle: Models and observations for individual hotspots, J. Geophys. Res. 105 (2000) 11127-11152.
13. M.A. Richards, R.A. Duncan, V. Courtillot, Flood basalts and hot spot tracks: Plume heads and tails, Science 246 (1989) 103-107.
14. P. Molnar, J. Stock, Relative motions of hotspots in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans since late Cretaceous time, Nature 327 (1987) 587-591.
15. D.M. Müller, J.Y. Royer, L.A. Lawver, Revised plate motions relative to the hotspots from combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean hotspot tracks, Geology 21 (1993) 275-278.
16. V. Courtillot, C. Jaupart, I. Manighetti, P. Tapponnier, J. Besse, On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 166 (1999) 177-195.
17. C.A. Raymond, J.M. Stock, S.C. Cande, Fast Paleogene motion of the Pacific hotspots from revised global plate circuit constraints, in: The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, Geophys. Monogr. 121 (2000) 359-375.
18. M. Albers, U.R. Christensen, The excess temperature of plumes rising from the core-mantle boundary, Geophys. Res. Lett. 23 (1996) 3567-3570.
19. B. Steinberger, R.J. O'Connell, Advection of plumes in mantle flow: Implications for hotspot motion, mantle viscosity and plume distribution, Geophys. J. Int. 132 (1998) 412-434.
20. M. Moreira, C.J. Allègre, Helium-Neon systematics and the structure of the mantle, Chem. Geol. 147 (1998) 53-59.
21. K.A. Farley, E. Neroda, Noble gases in the Earth's mantle, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 (1998) 189-218.
22. M. Moreira, T. Staudacher, P. Sarda, J.G. Schilling, C.J. Allègre, A primitive plume neon component in MORB: The Shona ridge-anomaly, South Atlantic (51-52°S), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 133 (1995) 367-377.
23. D.L. Anderson, The Helium Paradoxes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95 (1998) 4822-4827.
24. C.J. Allègre, The evolution of mantle mixing, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London 360 (2002) 1-21.
25. J. Ritsema, H.J. van Heijst, J.H. Woodhouse, Complex shear wave velocity structure imaged beneath Africa and Iceland, Science 286 (1999) 1925-1928.
26. Y.J. Gu, A.M. Dziewonski, W.J. Su, G. Ekstrom, Models of the mantle shear velocity and discontinuities in the pattern of lateral heterogeneities, J. Geophys. Res. 106 (2001) 11169-11189.
27. B. Steinberger, R.J. O'Connell, Effects of mantle flow on hotspot motions, in: The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, Geophys. Monogr. 121 (2000) 377-398.
28. I.H. Campbell, R.W. Griffiths, Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 99 (1990) 79-93.
29. P. Molnar, J. Stock, A method for bounding uncertainties in combined plate reconstructions, J. Geophys. Res. 90 (1985) 12537-12544.
30. 39Ar age progressions along seamount trails, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 185 (2001) 237-252.
31. C.Y. Yan, R.L. Carlson, The Cenozoic 'fixity' of the Hawaii and Louisville hotspots, and the rigidity of the Pacific plate, EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. U. 77 (17) (1997) S91.
32. I.O. Norton, Plate motion in the North Pacific: The 43 Ma non-event, Tectonics 14 (1995) 1080-1094.
33. J.A. Tarduno, R.D. Cottrell, Paleomagnetic evidence for motion of the Hawaiian hotspot during formation of the Emperor seamounts, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 153 (1997) 171-180.
34. M. Kono, Paleomagnetism of DSDP Leg 55 basalts and implications for the tectonics of the Pacific plate, Init. Rep. Deep Sea Drill. Proj. 55 (1980) 737-752.
35. J.A. Tarduno, J. Gee, Large-scale motion between Pacific and Atlantic hotspots, Nature 378 (1995) 477-480.
36. D. Vandamme, V. Courtillot, Paleomagnetism of Leg 115 basement rocks and latitudinal evolution of the Reunion hotspot, Sci. Res. Proc. Ocean Drill. Prog. 115 (1990) 111-117.
37. D. Vandamme, V. Courtillot, Latitudinal evolution of the Reunion hotspot deduced from paleomagnetic results of Leg 115, Geophys. Res. Lett. 17 (1990) 1105-1108.
38. D.A. Schneider, D.V. Kent, Paleomagnetism of Leg 115 sediments: Implications for Neogene magnetostratigraphy and paleolatitude of the Reunion hotspot, Sci. Res. Proc. Ocean Drill. Prog. 115 (1990) 717-736.
39. J. Besse, V. Courtillot, Apparent and true polar wander and the geometry of the geomagnetic field in the last 200 million years, J. Geophys. Res., in press.
40. K.E. Petronotis, R.G. Gordon, A Maastrichtian paleomagnetic pole for the Pacific plate from a skewness analysis of marine magnetic anomaly 32, Geophys. J. Int. 139 (1999) 227-247.
41. G. Masters, T.H. Jordan, P.G. Silver, F. Gilbert, Aspherical Earth structure from fundamental spheroidal-mode data, Nature 298 (1982) 609-613.
42. A.M. Dziewonski, J.H. Woodhouse, Global images of the Earth's interior, Science 236 (1987) 37-48.
43. W.R. Su, R.L. Woodward, A.M. Dziewonski, Degree 12 model of shear velocity heterogeneity in the mantle, J. Geophys. Res. 99 (1994) 6945-6981.
44. X.D. Li, B. Romanowicz, Global mantle shear velocity model developed using non-linear asymptotic coupling theory, J. Geophys. Res. 101 (1996) 22245-22272.
45. G. Masters, S. Johnson, G. Laske, H. Bolton, A shearvelocity model of the mantle, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. A 354 (1996) 1385-1410.
46. M. Richards, B.V. Hager, The Earth's geoid and the large scale structure of mantle convection, in: The Physics of the Planets, Wiley, New York, 1988.
47. A. Cazenave, A. Souriau, K. Dominh, Global coupling of Earth surface topography with hotspots, geoid and mantle heterogeneities, Nature 340 (1989) 54-57.
48. F.H. Busse, Quadrupole convection in the lower mantle?, Geophys. Res. Lett. 10 (1983) 285-288.
49. C.G. Chase, Subduction, the geoid, and lower mantle convection, Nature 282 (1979) 464-468.
50. B. Romanowicz, Y. Gung, Superplumes from the core- mantle boundary to the base of the lithosphere, Science 296 (2002) 513-516.
51. L. Bréger, B. Romanowicz, Three-dimensional structure at the base of the mantle beneath the central Pacific, Science 282 (1998) 718-720.
52. M. Javoy, Chemical earth models, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Earth Planet. Sci. 329 (1999) 537-555.
53. J.R. Whitehead, D.J. Luther, Dynamics of laboratory diapir and plume models, J. Geophys. Res. 80 (1975) 705-717.
54. F.D. Stacey, D.E. Loper, The thermal boundary layer interpretation of DQ and its role as a plume source, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 33 (1983) 45-55.
55. P. Olson, G. Schubert, C. Anderson, Plume formation in the DQ layer and the roughness of the core-mantle boundary, Nature 327 (1987) 409-413.
56. D. Bercovici, A. Kelly, The non-linear initiation of diapirs and plume heads, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 101 (1997) 119-130.
57. A. Davaille, Simultaneous generation of hotspots and superswells by convection in a heterogeneous planetary mantle, Nature 402 (1999) 756-760.
58. A. Davaille, F. Girard, M. Le Bars, How to anchor hotspots in a convecting mantle?, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 203 (2002) 621-634.
59. C.R. Bina, Lower mantle mineralogy and the geophysical perspective, in: R.J. Hemley (Ed.), Ultra-High Pressure Mineralogy, Reviews in Mineralogy Vol. 37, Mineralogical Society of America, 1998.
60. M.A. Richards, H.P. Bunge, Y. Ricard, J.R. Baumgardner, Polar wandering in mantle convection models, Geophys. Res. Lett. 26 (1999) 1777-1780.
61. S.A. Weinstein, Catastrophic overturn of the Earth's mantle driven by multiple phase changes and internal heat generation, Geophys. Res. Lett. 20 (1993) 101-104.
62. V. Steinbach, D.A. Yuen, Effects of depth dependent properties on the thermal anomalies produced in flush instabilities from phase transitions, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 86 (1994) 165-183.
63. D. Brunet, P. Machetel, Large-scale tectonic features induced by mantle avalanches with phase, temperature and pressure lateral variations in viscosity, J. Geophys. Res. 103 (1998) 4929-4945.
64. P. Patriat, J. Achache, India-Asia collision chronology has implications for crustal shortening and driving mechanism of plates, Nature 311 (1984) 615-621.
65. V. Courtillot, P. Renne, On the ages of flood basalt events, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, in press.