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| Title |
On the relative motions of long-lived Pacific mantle plumes
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, February 2018
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-018-03277-x |
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| Authors |
Kevin Konrad, Anthony A. P. Koppers, Bernhard Steinberger, Valerie A. Finlayson, Jasper G. Konter, Matthew G. Jackson |
| Abstract |
Mantle plumes upwelling beneath moving tectonic plates generate age-progressive chains of volcanos (hotspot chains) used to reconstruct plate motion. However, these hotspots appear to move relative to each other, implying that plumes are not laterally fixed. The lack of age constraints on long-lived, coeval hotspot chains hinders attempts to reconstruct plate motion and quantify relative plume motions. Here we provide40Ar/39Ar ages for a newly identified long-lived mantle plume, which formed the Rurutu hotspot chain. By comparing the inter-hotspot distances between three Pacific hotspots, we show that Hawaii is unique in its strong, rapid southward motion from 60 to 50 Myrs ago, consistent with paleomagnetic observations. Conversely, the Rurutu and Louisville chains show little motion. Current geodynamic plume motion models can reproduce the first-order motions for these plumes, but only when each plume is rooted in the lowermost mantle. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 20% |
| Japan | 2 | 10% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| South Africa | 1 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 5% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Curaçao | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 70% |
| Scientists | 3 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 15% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 68 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 25% |
| Researcher | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 16% |
| Unknown | 14 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 44 | 65% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 1% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 1% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 21 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 November 2022.
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