VOLCANO: July 2018: www.mantleplumes.org website progress

[Sean Peters <speter24@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Gillian R. Foulger" <g.r.foulger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

Subject: July 2018: www.mantleplumes.org website progress  

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Dear colleague,

Over 860 scientists have now contributed to www.mantleplumes.org.

This newsletter is distributed to 5,000 researchers.

If you find the website useful, please mention it in the acknowledgements of your papers.

Additions to the website over the last few weeks include:

1. New webpage: 

Stagnant Lid Tectonics: Perspectives from Silicate Planets, Dwarf Planets, Large Moons, and Large Asteroids R.J. Stern, T. Gerya, P. J. Tackley

2. New webpage: 

	Geophysical modeling informs us about the resolution of deep plume tails R. Maguire

3. Revisited webpages:

The Deccan beyond the plume hypothesis Hetu Sheth

	Estimation of the thermal state of NW Kyushu mantle using primitive basalts Hidehisa Mashima

See also:

The Mantle Plume Debate Workshop

Meiji University, Tokyo, 26th May, 2018 

10:00-11:00 Foulger, R. Gillian (Durham Univ.)
“The Plate vs. Plume controversy: Why has it not been resolved?”

11:00-12:00 Julian, R. Bruce (Durham Univ.)
“Seismic tomography: Challenges and new approaches”

13:30-14:30 Matsubara, Makoto, NIED
“Standard 3D seismic velocity structure beneath Japanese Islands and configuration of Moho discontinuity”

14:30-15:30 Sheth C. Hetu (IIT, Bombay, JSPS Fellow)
“A mantle plume origin of the Deccan flood basalts: How certain?”

15:30-16:30 Mashima, Hidehisa, COLS, Meiji Univ.
“Opening Tectonics of the Japan Sea inferred from geological evidence"

4. A MUST-see:

Museo Universitario di Scienze della Terra

Earth Sciences University Museum, Univ. Rome

5. The blog of Recent scholarly articles relevant to the mantle plumes debate is updated weekly.

6. The list of Jobs & Studentships available is updated. Please make your colleagues and students aware of this webpage, and email the website manager if you want positions in your own institution advertised.

Please consider contributing your own work to the website – email the website manager.

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Best regards,

Gillian R. Foulger

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