Recent papers & books relevant to the debate regarding the origin of hot spots

Dick, H.J.B. and H. Zhou, Ocean rises are products of variable mantle composition, temperature and focused melting, Nature Geoscience, 8, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2318, 2014.

Davies, D. Rhodri & Nicholas Rawlinson, On the origin of recent intraplate volcanism in Australia, Geology, Data Repository item 2014358, doi:10.1130/G36093.1

Hart, S. R. and M. G. Jackson, Ta’u and Ofu/Olosega Volcanoes – the “Twin Sisters” of Samoa, their P, T, X Melting Regime, and Global Implications, G-Cubed, 15, doi:10.1002/2013GC005221, 2014.

Stamps, D. S., L. M. Flesch, E. Calais, and A. Ghosh (2014), Current kinematics and dynamics of Africa and the East African Rift System, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 5161–5186, doi:10.1002/2013JB010717

Niu, Y.L., 2014. Geological understanding of plate tectonics: Basic concepts, illustrations, examples and new perspectives, Global Tectonics and Metallogeny, 10, 23-46.

Wang,Yu, M. Santosh, Zhaohua Luo, Jinhua Hao, Large igneous provinces linked to supercontinent assembly, J. Geodynamics, in press, 2014.

Daoyuan Sun, Meghan S. Miller, Adam F. Holt and Thorsten W. Becker, Hot upwelling conduit beneath the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 8037–8044, 2014, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061884

Herbrich, Antje, Kaj Hoernle, Reinhard Werner, Folkmar Hauff, Paul v.d. Bogaard, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Cocos Plate Seamounts offshore NW Costa Rica and SW Nicaragua: Implications for large-scale distribution of Galápagos plume material in the upper mantle, Lithos, 212–215, 214-230, 2014.

Petersen, K.D., J.J. Armitage, S.B. Nielsen, H. Thybo, Mantle temperature as a control on the time scale of thermal evolution of extensional basins, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 409, 61-70, 2014.

Hildenbrand, Anthony, Dominique Weis, Pedro Madureira, Fernando Ornelas Marques, Recent plate re-organization at the Azores Triple Junction: Evidence from combined geochemical and geochronological data on Faial, S. Jorge and Terceira volcanic islands, Lithos, 210-211, 27-39, 2014.

Parnell-Turner, Ross, Nicky White, Tim Henstock, Bramley Murton, John Maclennan et al., A continuous 55-million-year record of transient mantle plume activity beneath Iceland, Nature Geoscience, 7, 914 - 919, doi:10.1038/ngeo2281.

Chang, Emmy T.Y., Benjamin F. Chao, Analysis of coseismic deformation using EOF method on dense, continuous GPS data in Taiwan, Tectonophysics, 637, 106-115, 2014.

Moeremans, Raphaele E., and Satish C. Singh, Seismic evidence of continental margin influence on the NinetyEast Ridge in the Bay of Bengal, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 7143–7150, 2014.

Bianchini, Gianluca, Julia G. Bryce, Janne Blichert-Toft, Luigi Beccaluva, Claudio Natali, Mantle dynamics and secular variations beneath the East African Rift: Insights from peridotite xenoliths (Mega, Ethiopia), Chemical Geology, 385, 49-58, 2014.

Ghosh, Sujoy, Max W. Schmidt, Melting of phase D in the lower mantle and implications for recycling and storage of H2O in the deep mantle, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 145, 72-88 , 2014.

Njome, M. Stephen, Maarten J. de Wit, The Cameroon Line: Analysis of an intraplate magmatic province transecting both oceanic and continental lithospheres: Constraints, controversies and models, Earth-Science Reviews, 129, 168-194, 2014.

Levander, A., M. J. Bezada, F. Niu, E. D. Humphreys, I. Palomeras, S. M. Thurner, J. Masy, M. Schmitz, J. Gallart, R. Carbonell & M. S. Miller, Subduction-driven recycling of continental margin lithosphere, Nature, 515, 253–256, 2014, doi:10.1038/nature13878

Huismans, Ritske S., Christopher Beaumont, Rifted continental margins: The case for depth-dependent extension, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 407, 148-162, 2014.

Harangi, Szabolcs, M. Éva Jankovics, Tamás Sági, Balázs Kiss, Réka Lukács, Ildikó Soós, Origin and geodynamic relationships of the Late Miocene to Quaternary alkaline basalt volcanism in the Pannonian basin, eastern–central Europe, Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol Rundsch), DOI 10.1007/s00531-014-1105-7

Gogus H. Oguz, Rifting and subsidence following lithospheric removal in continental back arcs, Geology, doi:10.1130/G36305.1

Anderson, D.L. & S.K. King, Driving the Earth machine?, Science, 346, 1184-1185, 2014.

Kreemer, Corné and Richard G. Gordon, Pacific plate deformation from horizontal thermal contraction, Geology, 42, 847–850, 2014.

Duncan Macgregor, History of the development of the East African Rift System: A series of interpreted maps through time, J. African Earth Sciences, 101, 232–252, 2015.

Koopmann, Hannes, Sascha Brune, Dieter Franke and Sonja Breuer, Linking rift propagation barriers to excess magmatism at volcanic rifted margins, Geology, published online.

Faccenna, Claudio, Thorsten W. Becker, Ludwig Auer, Andrea Billi, Lapo Boschi, Jean Pierre Brun, Fabio A. Capitanio, Francesca Funiciello, Ferenc Horvàth, Laurent Jolivet, Claudia Piromallo, Leigh Royden, Federico Rossetti and Enrico Serpelloni, Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean, Rev. Geophys., Article first published online: 11 AUG 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/2013RG000444, p 283–332.

Moeremans, Raphaele E. and Satish C. Singh, Seismic evidence of continental margin influence on the NinetyEast Ridge in the Bay of Bengal, Geophys. Res. Lett., Accepted manuscript online: 12 OCT 2014 02:40AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061598

Green, David H., William O. Hibberson, Anja Rosenthal, István Kovács,Gregory M. Yaxley, Trevor J. Falloon, and Frank Brink, Experimental Study of the Influence of Water on Melting and Phase Assemblages in the Upper Mantle, J. Petrology, 55: 2067-2096, 2014.

de Boorder, H., The Jiaodong gold district, northeastern China, in the context of the Late Paleozoic and Late Mesozoic large igneous provinces, orogeny and metallogeny in Eurasia, Ore Geology Reviews, 65, 574–588, 2015.

Barker, A. K., P. M. Holm & V. R. Troll, The role of eclogite in the mantle heterogeneity at Cape Verde, Contrib. Min. Pet., 168, published online,doi 10.1007/s00410-014-1052-0, 2014.

Panza, Giuliano F., Fabio Romanelli, Seismic waves in 3-D: from mantle asymmetries to reliable seismic hazard assessment, Earthq Sci., 27(5), 567–576, 2014, DOI 10.1007/s11589-014-0091-y

Rey, Patrice F., Nicolas Coltice & Nicolas Flament, Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics, Nature, 513, 405–408, doi:10.1038/nature13728.

Kaislaniemi, Lars and Jeroen van Hunen, Dynamics of lithospheric thinning and mantle melting by edge-driven convection: Application to Moroccan Atlas mountain, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 15, 3175–3189, Article first published online: 19 AUG 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005414

Chadwick, John, Randall Keller, George Kamenov, Gene Yogodzinski and John Lupton, The Cobb hot spot: HIMU-DMM mixing and melting controlled by a progressively thinning lithospheric lid, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 15, 3107–3122, Article first published online: 1 AUG 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005334.

David T. Sandwell, R. Dietmar Müller, Walter H. F. Smith, Emmanuel Garcia, and Richard Francis, New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure, Science, 346, 65-67, DOI:10.1126/science.1258213. Perspective: Seafloor secrets revealed Cheinway Hwang and Emmy T. Y. Chang livescience article: Geological Wonderland: Thousands of Seamounts Discovered in New Seafloor Map

Schmandt, B. and Fan-Chi Lin, P- and S-wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States, Accepted manuscript online: 11 SEP 2014 01:06AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061231

Anderson, D.L. & J.H. Natland, Mantle updrafts and mechanisms of oceanic volcanism, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1410229111 Supporting information

Williams, Helen M., Michael Bizimis, Iron isotope tracing of mantle heterogeneity within the source regions of oceanic basalts , Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 404, 396-407, 2014.

Wirth, R., L. Dobrzhinetskaya, B. Harte, A. Schreiber, H.W. Green, High-Fe (Mg, Fe)O inclusion in diamond apparently from the lowermost mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 404, 365-375, 2014.

King, Scott D. and Claudia Adam, Hotspot swells revisited, PEPI, 235, 66-83, 2014.

Bercovici, David and Maureen D. Long, Slab rollback instability and super-continent dispersal, Accepted manuscript online: 28 AUG 2014 10:06PM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061251

Gueydan, F., Jacques Précigout, Laurent G.J. Montési, Strain weakening enables continental plate tectonics, Tectonophysics, 631, 189–196, 2014.

Burov, E. & T Gerya, Asymmetric three-dimensional topography over mantle plumes, Nature 513, 85–89 (04 September 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13703

Abers, GA, KM Fischer, G Hirth, DA Wiens, T Plank, BK Holtzman, C McCarthy and E. Gaze, Reconciling mantle attenuation-temperature relationships from seismology, petrology, and laboratory measurements, Accepted manuscript online: 16 AUG 2014 01:24AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005444

Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 402, Pages 1-352, 15 September 2014 Special issue on USArray science Edited by Maureen D. Long, Alan Levander and Peter M. Shearer

Huang, F., Wu, Z., Huang, S., and Wu, F. (2014). First-principles calculations of equilibrium silicon isotope fractionation among mantle minerals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 140, 509-520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.05.035.

Andrea Giuliani, David Phillips, Roland Maas, Jon D. Woodhead, Mark A. Kendrick, Alan Greig, Richard A. Armstrong, David Chew, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Marco L. Fiorentini, LIMA U–Pb ages link lithospheric mantle metasomatism to Karoo magmatism beneath the Kimberley region, South Africa, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 401, 132-147, 2014.

Ichiyama, Yuji, Akira Ishiwatari, Jun-Ichi Kimura, Ryoko Senda & Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Jurassic plume-origin ophiolites in Japan: accreted fragments of oceanic plateaus, Cont. Min. Pet., 168, 1019, 2014.

Kaislaniemi, Lars and Jeroen van Hunen, Dynamics of lithospheric thinning and mantle melting by edge-driven convection: Application to Moroccan Atlas mountains, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., accepted manuscript online: 16 JUL 2014 04:16AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005414

Sheth, H.C. & E. Canon-Tapia, Are flood-basalt eruptions monogenetic or polygenetic?, Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol Rundsch), in press, DOI 10.1007/s00531-014-1048-z

Muluneh, Ameha A., M. Cuffaro, C.o Doglioni , Left-lateral transtension along the Ethiopian Rift and constrains on the mantle-reference plate motions, Tectonophysics, in press, 2014.

Graham, David W., Barry B. Hanan, Christophe Hémond, Janne Blichert-Toft and Francis Albarède, Helium isotopic textures in Earth's upper mantle, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 2048–2074, DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005264

Nichols, Alexander R. L., Christoph Beier, Philipp A. Brandl, David M. Buchs and Stefan H. Krumm, Geochemistry of volcanic glasses from the Louisville Seamount Trail (IODP Expedition 330): Implications for eruption environments and mantle melting, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 1718–1738.

Brandon Schmandt, Steven D. Jacobsen, Thorsten W. Becker, Zhenxian Liu, Kenneth G. Dueker, Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle, Science, 344, 1265-1268, DOI: 10.1126/science.1253358.

Huang, Shichun, Cin-Ty A. Lee & Qing-Zhu Yin, Missing Lead and High 3He/4He in Ancient Sulfides Associated with Continental Crust Formation, Scientific Reports, 4, DOI: 10.1038/srep05314

Tang, Youcai, Masayuki Obayashi, Fenglin Niu, Stephen P. Grand, Yongshun John Chen et al., Changbaishan volcanism in northeast China linked to subduction-induced mantle upwelling, Nature Geoscience, 7, 470–475, 2014, doi:10.1038/ngeo2166.

Zhang, Li, Yue Meng, Wenge Yang, Lin Wang, Wendy L. Mao, Qiao-Shi Zeng, Jong Seok Jeong, Andrew J. Wagner, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Wenjun Liu, Ruqing Xu, Ho-kwang Mao, Disproportionation of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite in Earth’s deep lower mantle, Science, 23, 877-882, 2014.

Vanderkluysen, Loÿc, John J. Mahoney, Anthony A. P. Koppers, Christoph Beier, Marcel Regelous, Jeffrey S. Gee and Peter F. Lonsdale, Louisville Seamount Chain: Petrogenetic processes and geochemical evolution of the mantle source, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Accepted Article (Accepted, unedited articles published online

Mallik, Ananya and Rajdeep Dasgupta, Effect of variable CO2 on eclogite-derived andesite and lherzolite reaction at 3 GPa—Implications for mantle source characteristics of alkalic ocean island basalts, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, Issue 4, 1533–1557, 2014.

Li, Mingming, Allen K. McNamara and Edward J. Garnero, Chemical complexity of hotspots caused by cycling oceanic crust through mantle reservoirs, Nature Geoscience, 7, 366–370 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2120 News & Views: Deschamps, Frédéric, Mantle plume chemical diversity, Nature Geoscience, 7, 330–331 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2117

Xu, Yi-Gang, Recycled oceanic crust in the source of 90-40 Ma basalts in North and Northeast China: Evidence, provenance and significance, Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta., Original Research Article, Available online 9 May 2014

De Plaen, R.S.M., I. D. Bastow, E.L. Chambers, D. Keir, R.J. Gallacher and J. Keane, The development of magmatism along the Cameroon Volcanic Line: Evidence from seismicity and seismic anisotropy, J. Geophys. Res., Article first published online: 8 MAY 2014, DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010583.

Themed issue in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences Flood Basalts of Asia in memory of John Joseph Mahoney (1952–2012) Edited by Hetu C. Sheth and Loÿc Vanderkluysen

Herzberg, C., R.A. Cabral, M.G. Jackson, C. Vidito, J.M.D. Day, E.H. Hauri, Phantom Archean crust in Mangaia hotspot lavas and the meaning of heterogeneous mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 396, 97-106, 2014.

He, Chuansong, M. Santosh, Jianping Wu, Xuanhua Chen, Plume or no plume: Emeishan Large Igneous Province in Southwest China revisited from receiver function analysis, PEPI, Available online 28 April 2014

Barry, P.H., D.R. Hilton, E. Füri, S.A. Halldórsson, K. Grönvold, Carbon isotope and abundance systematics of Icelandic geothermal gases, fluids and subglacial basalts with implications for mantle plume-related CO2 fluxes, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 134, 74–99, 2014

Graham, David W., Barry B. Hanan, Christophe Hémond, Janne Blichert-Toft and Francis Albarède, Helium isotopic textures in Earth's upper mantle, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, accepted manuscript online: 27 APR 2014 03:18AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005264

Bello, Léa, Nicolas Coltice, Tobias Rolf and Paul J. Tackley, On the predictability limit of convection models of the Earth's mantle, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, accepted manuscript online: 27 APR 2014 03:28AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005254

Faccenna, Claudio, Thorsten W. Becker, Ludwig Auer, Andrea Billi, Lapo Boschi, Jean Pierre Brun, Fabio A. Capitanio, Francesca Funiciello, Ferenc Horvàth, Laurent Jolivet, Claudia Piromallo, Leigh Royden, Federico Rossetti and Enrico Serpelloni, Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean, accepted manuscript online: 23 APR 2014 10:14PM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2013RG000444

Barry, P.H., D.R. Hilton, E. Füri, S.A. Halldórsson, K. Grönvold, Carbon isotope and abundance systematics of Icelandic geothermal gases, fluids and subglacial basalts with implications for mantle plume-related CO2 fluxes Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta.,134, 74-99, 2014.

Paul, J.D., Gareth G. Roberts and Nicky White, The African Landscape Through Space and Time, Tectonics, accepted manuscript online: 4 MAY 2014 06:42PM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003479.

Yoshida, Masaki, Effects of various lithospheric yield stresses and different mantle heating modes on the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent, Geophysical Research Letters, accepted manuscript online: 23 APR 2014 10:36AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060023

Guillou, Hervé, René C. Maury, Gérard Guille, Catherine Chauvel, Philippe Rossi, Carlos Pallares, Christelle Legendre, Sylvain Blais, Céline Liorzou, Sébastien Deroussi, Volcanic successions in Marquesas eruptive centers: A departure from the Hawaiian model, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 276,173-188, 2014.

Heydolph, Ken, David T. Murphy, Jörg Geldmacher, Irina V. Romanova, Andrew Greene, Kaj Hoernle, Dominique Weis, John Mahoney, Plume versus plate origin for the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau (NW Pacific): Insights from Nd, Pb and Hf isotopes, Lithos, in press, available online 12 April 2014.

Crépisson, C., G. Morard, H. Bureau, G. Prouteau, Y. Morizet, S. Petitgirard, C. Sanloup, Magmas trapped at the continental lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 393, 105-112, 2014.

Mallik, Ananya and Rajdeep Dasgupta, Effect of variable CO₂ on eclogite-derived andesite and lherzolite reaction at 3 GPa: Implications for mantle source characteristics of alkalic ocean island basalts, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, accepted manuscript online: 27 MAR 2014 01:15AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005251

Stein, C.A., Seth Stein, Miguel Merino, G. Randy Keller, Lucy M. Flesch and Donna M. Jurdy, Was the Midcontinent Rift part of a successful seafloor-spreading episode?, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 1465–1470, 2014, article first published online: 5 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059176

Maccaferri, Francesco, Eleonora Rivalta, Derek Keir and Valerio Acocella, Off-rift volcanism in rift zones determined by crustal unloading, Nature Geoscience, 7, 297-300, 2014, doi:10.1038/ngeo2110

Philippon, Melody, Giacomo Corti, Federico Sani, Marco Bonini, Maria-Laura Balestrieri, Paola Molin, Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis and Sierd Cloetingh, Evolution, distribution and characteristics of rifting in southern Ethiopia, Tectonics, Accepted manuscript online: 3 MAR 2014 03:18AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003430

Shen, Xuzhang, Xiaohui Yuan and Xueqing Li, A ubiquitous low-velocity layer at the base of the mantle transition zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 836-842, 2014, DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058918

Lowenstern, J.B., W.C. Evans, D. Bergfeld & A.G. Hunt, Prodigious degassing of a billion years of accumulated radiogenic helium at Yellowstone, Nature, 506, 355–358, 2014, doi:10.1038/nature12992

Xu, Junyuan, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Tom Keltc, Ho-Shing Yu, Origin of marginal basins of the NWPacific and their plate tectonic reconstructions, Earth-Science Reviews, 130, 154-196, 2014.

Ellis, D. & M.S. Stoker, The Faroe–Shetland Basin: a regional perspective from the Paleocene to the present day and its relationship to the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, From: Cannon, S. J. C. & Ellis, D. (eds) Hydrocarbon Exploration to Exploitation West of Shetlands, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP397.1, 2014.

Avanzinelli, Riccardo, Eleonora Braschi, Sara Marchionni, Luca Bindi, Mantle melting in within-plate continental settings: Sr–Nd–Pb and U-series isotope constraints in alkali basalts from the Sicily Channel (Pantelleria and Linosa Islands, Southern Italy), Lithos, 188, 113-129, 2014.

Cirrincione, R., P. Fiannacca, M. Lustrino, V. Romano, A. Tranchina, Late Triassic tholeiitic magmatism in Western Sicily: A possible extension of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in the Central Mediterranean area?, Lithos, 188, 60-71, 2014.

Bertrand, Hervé, Michel Fornari, Andrea Marzoli, Raúl García-Duarte, Thierry Sempere, The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province extends into Bolivia, Lithos, 188, 33-43, 2014.

Callegaro, Sara, Cedric Rapaille, Andrea Marzoli, Hervé Bertrand, Massimo Chiaradia, Laurie Reisberg, Giuliano Bellieni, Línia Martins, José Madeira, João Mata, Nassrrdine Youbi, Angelo De Min, Maria Rosário Azevedo, Mohamed Khalil Bensalah, Enriched mantle source for the Central Atlantic magmatic provin new supporting evidence from southwestern Europe, Lithos, 188, 15-32, 2014.

Cañón-Tapia, Edgardo, Volcanic eruption triggers: A hierarchical classification, Earth-Science Reviews, 129, 100-119, 2014.

Nomura, Ryuichi, Kei Hirose, Kentaro Uesugi, Yasuo Ohishi, Akira Tsuchiyama, Akira Miyake, Yuichiro Ueno, Low Core-Mantle Boundary Temperature Inferred from the Solidus of Pyrolite, Science, Published Online January 16 2014, 343, 522-525, DOI: 10.1126/science.1248186

Villagómez, Darwin R., Douglas R. Toomey, Dennis J. Geist, Emilie E. E. Hooft and Sean C. Solomon, Mantle flow and multistage melting beneath the Galápagos hotspot revealed by seismic imaging, Nature Geoscience, 7, 151 - 156, doi:10.1038/ngeo2062, 2014.

Panet, Isabelle, Gwendoline Pajot-Métivier, Marianne Greff-Lefftz, Laurent Métivier, Michel Diament et al., Mapping the mass distribution of Earth's mantle using satellite-derived gravity gradients, Nature Geoscience, 7, 131 - 135, doi:10.1038/ngeo2063, 2014.

Shellnutt, J. Gregory, Ghulam M. Bhat, Kuo-Lung Wang, Michael E. Brookfield, Bor-Ming Jahn, Jaroslav Dostal, Petrogenesis of the flood basalts from the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India: geochemical evidence for shallow melting of the mantle, Lithos, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.01.008, 2014.

Lundin, E.R., G. Peron-Pindivic, T.F. Redfield, Rifted Continental Margins: Geometric Influence on Crustal Architecture and Melting, Sedimentary Basins: Origin, Depositional Histories, and Petroleum Systems, 1-36, 2014. [Anyone interested in this work may contact Erik Lundin for more information]

Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, W.B., Earth science: Plume hypothesis challenged, Nature, 505, 618, 30 January 2014) doi:10.1038/505618c, Published online 29 January 2014.

Hofmann, Albrecht W. and Cinzia G. Farnetani, Two views of Hawaiian plume structure, Geochem, Geophys. Geosys., 14, 5308–5322, 2014.

Kuskov, O.L., V.A. Kronrod, A.A. Prokofyev, N.I. Pavlenkova, Thermo-chemical structure of the lithospheric mantle underneath the Siberian craton inferred from long-range seismic profiles, Tectonophysics, Available online 15 January 2014.

Coogan,L.A., A.D. Saunders, R.N. Wilson, Aluminum-in-olivine thermometry of primitive basalts: Evidence of an anomalously hot mantle source for large igneous provinces, Chemical Geology, Available online 16 January 2014.

Rychert, C.A., Nicholas Harmon, Cynthia Ebinger, Receiver function imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath the Galápagos Archipelago, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 388, 156-165, 2014.

Campbell, I.H., Ross W. Griffiths, Did the formation of D″ cause the Archaean–Proterozoic transition?, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 388, 1-8, 2014.

Adam, Claudia, Masaki Yoshida, Daisuke Suetsugu, Yoshio Fukao, Cecilia Cadio, Geodynamic modeling of the South Pacific superswell, PEPI, New Article in Press, 6 January-12 January 2014

Camp, V.E., 2013, Origin of the Columbia River Basalt: Passive rise of shallow mantle, or active upwelling of a deep-mantle plume?, in Reidel, S.P., Camp, V.E., Ross, M.E., Wolff, J.A., Martin, B.S., Tolan, TlL., and Wells, R.E., eds., The Columbia River Basalt Province: Geological Society of America Special Paper 497, doi: 10.1130/2013.2497(07).

Stica, Juliano Magalhães, Pedro Victor Zalánc, André Luiz Ferrari, The evolution of rifting on the volcanic margin of the Pelotas Basin and the contextualization of the Paraná–Etendeka LIP in the separation of Gondwana in the South Atlantic, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 50, 1–21, 2014.

Guillou, Hervé, René C. Maury, Gérard Guille, Catherine Chauvel, Philippe Rossi, Carlos Pallares, Christelle Legendre, Sylvain Blais, Céline Liorzou, Sébastien Deroussi, Volcanic successions in Marquesas eruptive centers: A departure from the Hawaiian mode J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., in press, 2014.

Gillis, Kathryn M., Jonathan E. Snow, Adam Klaus, Natsue Abe, Álden B. Adrião, Norikatsu Akizawa, Georges Ceuleneer, Michael J. Cheadle, Kathrin Faak, Trevor J. Falloon, Sarah A. Friedman, Marguerite Godard, Gilles Guerin, Yumiko Harigane, Andrew J. Horst, Takashi Hoshide, Benoit Ildefonse, Marlon M. Jean, Barbara E. John, Juergen Koepke, Sumiaki Machi, Jinichiro Maeda, Naomi E. Marks, Andrew M. McCaig, Romain Meyer et al., Primitive layered gabbros from fast-spreading lower oceanic crust, Nature, 505, 204–207, 2014, doi:10.1038/nature12778.

Métrich, Nicole, Vittorio Zanon, Laura Créon, Anthony Hildenbrand, Manuel Moreira, and Fernando Ornelas Marques, Is the ‘Azores Hotspot’ a Wetspot? Insights from the Geochemistry of Fluid and Melt Inclusions in Olivine of Pico Basalts, J. Petrology, 55, 377-393, 2014.

Hastie, W.W., Michael K.Watkeys and Charles Aubourg, Magma flow in dyke swarms of the Karoo LIP: Implications for the mantle plume hypothesis, Gondwana Research 25, 736–755, 2014.

Chavrit, D., E. Humler, O. Grasset, Mapping modern CO2 fluxes and mantle carbon content all along the mid-ocean ridge system, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 387, 229-239, 2014.