A strong 50–35 Ma decrease in India‐Asia convergence is generally ascribed to continent‐
continent collision. However, a convergence rate increase of similar magnitude occurred …

东南亚上地幔地震层析成像表明, 海南岛周围之下存在地幔柱, 近垂直的低波速柱体位于海南岛
及南海之下, 从浅部向下穿越660 km 的不连续面处(上下地幔的分界面) 并一直延伸到1 900 km …

Melt generation and migration are an important link between surface processes and the
thermal and chemical evolution of the Earth's interior. However, their vastly different …

Large igneous provinces are characterized by anomalously high rates of magma production.
Such voluminous magmatism is commonly attributed to partial melting of hot, buoyantly …

Is Iceland a hotspot, with ridge-centered plume? In Iceland vigorous volcanism has built up a
plateau 3.0 km higher than at a normal mid-ocean ridge with 3 to 4 times thicker crust than …

Mantle plumes are expected to be affected by large‐scale flow in the Earth's mantle related
to plate motions, subducted slabs, and possibly large‐scale upwellings. Motion of plume …

Hotspot tracks are thought to originate when mantle plumes impinge moving plates.
However, many observed cases close to mid‐ocean ridges do not form a single age …

As the Earth's primary mode of planetary cooling, the oceanic plate is created at mid-ocean
ridges, transported across the planet's surface, and destroyed at subduction zones. The …

The Iceland, Galápagos, and Azores plumes have previously been identified as interacting
asymmetrically with adjacent spreading centers. We present evidence that the flow fields in …

D models were calculated for the velocity of shear waves, polarized vertically (SV) and
horizontally (SH) from dispersed Rayleigh and Love surface waves. These had been …