The puzzle of the South Pacific

Norman Sleep
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Norman Sleep: Stanford University

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6650, 439-440

Abstract: Most explanations for the distribution of seamounts and islands invoke hotspots — places where plumes of material from deep within the Earth reach the surface. Combined with the motion of tectonic plates, the result is chains of seamounts and islands. There is difficulty reconciling this view with new data from the South Pacific. But hotspot theory could in this instance be salvageable if one considers a more complicated picture, one whereby hotspots are taken to be more than point sources of heat.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/38883

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