Fixed hotspots gone with the wind

Ulrich Christensen ()
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Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6669, 739-740

Abstract: Island chains such as Hawaii are produced by hotspots — points of volcanic activity driven by plumes of hot rock. New analyses reveal that hotspots are much more mobile than had been thought.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/35736

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