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AGU 2010 Session: V37. Are Hotspots Hot?
From: "Gillian R. Foulger" <g.r.foulger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the following session at the AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, 13-17 Dec. 2010) and invite your contribution.
Session: V37. Are Hotspots Hot?
An anomalously hot mantle source is a requirement of the Plume hypothesis, but not of the shallow Plate hypothesis. Whether or not the temperature beneath “hotspots” is unusually high is a matter of current dispute. Methods used to measure mantle temperature include seismology, petrology, heat flow, and modeling ocean-floor topography, e.g., swells. A critical underpinning of these efforts is the thermal structure of the mantle, including the thickness of the surface conduction layer and expected lateral variations. This session solicits contributions, from all subdisciplines, that bear on estimating the temperature of the mantle beneath “hotspots”. A diversity of viewpoints is anticipated and session time will be allocated to discussion.
Conveners: Gillian R. Foulger, Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Rd., Durham DH1 3LE, U.K., g.r.foulger@xxxxxxxxxxxx, +44-191-386-4533
Peter D. Clift, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, School of Geosciences, Meston Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K., pclift@xxxxxxxxxx, +44-1224-273456
James H. Natland, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, jnatland@xxxxxxx, 305/421-4123
Abstract submission is open until 2 September 2010. Please check the AGU website (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/) for further details.
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