The Emperor Seamounts: Southward motion of the Hawaiian hotspot plume in earth's mantle

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5636, 2003, Pages 1064-1069

  Tarduno, John A ^a   Duncan, Robert A ^b   Scholl, David W ^c   Cottrell, Rory D ^a   Steinberger, Bernhard ^d   Thordarson, Thorvaldur ^e   Kerr, Bryan C ^c   Neal, Clive R ^f   Frey, Fred A ^g   Torii, Masayuki ^h   Carvallo, Claire ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; RADIOMETRY; TECTONICS;

MANTLE CONVECTION;

EARTH (PLANET);

HOT SPOT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE MOTION; SEAMOUNT;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; CRETACEOUS; DRILL; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; HAWAIIAN EMPEROR HOTSPOT TRACK; LAND BIOME; MAGNETISM; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; SAMPLING; TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

HAWAIIA;

EID: 0041328411     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086442     Document Type: Article

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41. This research used samples provided by the ODP, which is sponsored by NSF and participating countries under management of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions. We thank the scientific and operational parties of Leg 197 for their contributions at sea; the staff of ODP-Texas A&M University for their technical support; and P. Doubrovine, G. Otton, D. Sinnett, and A. O'Kane for assistance with magnetic measurements. Supported by NSF.