Longevity of small-scale (‘baby’) plumes and their role in lithospheric break-up

Plume‐induced sinking of intra‐continental lithospheric mantle: An overlooked mechanism of subduction initiation?

(2021) Sierd Cloetingh et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Formation of Continental Microplates Through Rift Linkage: Numerical Modeling and Its Application to the Flemish Cap and Sao Paulo Plateau

(2021) Derek Neuharth et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Controls by rheological structure of the lithosphere on the temporal evolution of continental magmatism: Inferences from the Pannonian Basin system

(2021) Alexander Koptev et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Magma-assisted fragmentation of Pangea: Continental breakup initiation and propagation

(2021) Huixin Guan et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Plate motion and plume-induced subduction initiation

(2021) Marzieh Baes et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Plume‐Induced Subduction Initiation: Single‐Slab or Multi‐Slab Subduction?

(2020) Marzieh Baes et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

East African topography and volcanism explained by a single, migrating plume

(2020) Rakib Hassan et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Evidence of Bermuda hot and wet upwelling from novel three-dimensional global mantle electrical conductivity image

(2020) Shiwen Li et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Geodetic evidence for a buoyant mantle plume beneath the eifel volcanic area, NW Europe

(2020) Corné Kreemer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Pliocene uplift of the Massif Central (France) constrained by the palaeoelevation quantified from the pollen record of sediments preserved along the Cantal Stratovolcano (Murat area)

(2020) Séverine Fauquette et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Origin of isolated seamounts in the Canary Basin (East Atlantic): The role of plume material in the origin of seamounts not associated with hotspot tracks

(2020) Xiaojun Long et al.   TERRA NOVA

High mantle seismic P-wave speeds as a signature for gravitational spreading of superplumes

(2020) Tim Stern et al.   Science Advances

Subduction initiation by plume‐plateau interaction: Insights from numerical models

(2020) Marzieh Baes et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Deflating the LLSVPs: Bundles of Mantle Thermochemical Plumes Rather Than Thick Stagnant “Piles”

(2020) Anne Davaille et al.   TECTONICS

Geodynamic experiments suggest that mantle plume caused Late Permian Emeishan Large Igneous Province in Southern China

(2020) Oğuz H Göğüş   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Plume‐induced break‐up of a subducting plate: Microcontinent formation without cessation of the subduction process

(2019) Alexander Koptev et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A review of Pangaea dispersal and Large Igneous Provinces – in search of a causative mechanism

(2019) A.L. Peace et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Buoyant hydrous mantle plume from the mantle transition zone

(2019) Takeshi Kuritani et al.   Scientific Reports

Modeling the Inception of Supercontinent Breakup: Stress State and the Importance of Orogens

(2019) Chuan Huang et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Mantle Melting and Intraplate Volcanism Due to Self‐Buoyant Hydrous Upwellings From the Stagnant Slab That Are Conveyed by Small‐Scale Convection

(2019) Xiaogang Long et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Geodynamic evolution of southwestern North America since the Late Eocene

(2019) Alireza Bahadori et al.   Nature Communications

The role of water and compression in the genesis of alkaline basalts: Inferences from the Carpathian-Pannonian region

(2019) I. Kovács et al.   LITHOS

Evidence of hotspot paths below Arabia and the Horn of Africa and consequences on the Red Sea opening

(2018) S. Vicente de Gouveia et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Variable Melt Production Rate of the Kerguelen HotSpot Due To Long-Term Plume-Ridge Interaction

(2018) Eva Bredow et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Along-Axis Variations of Rift Width in a Coupled Lithosphere-Mantle System, Application to East Africa

(2018) Alexander Koptev et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Stratigraphic framework for the plume mode of mantle convection and the analysis of interregional unconformities on geological maps

(2018) Anke M. Friedrich et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Physical modeling of the formation conditions of microcontinents and continental marginal plateaus

(2018) E. P. Dubinin et al.   IZVESTIYA-PHYSICS OF THE SOLID EARTH

Non-uniform splitting of a single mantle plume by double cratonic roots: Insight into the origin of the central and southern East African Rift System

(2018) Alexander Koptev et al.   TERRA NOVA

Origin of the LLSVPs at the base of the mantle is a consequence of plate tectonics – A petrological and geochemical perspective

(2018) Yaoling Niu   Geoscience Frontiers

The dominant driving force for supercontinent breakup: Plume push or subduction retreat?

(2018) Nan Zhang et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Delivery of deep-sourced, volatile-rich plume material to the global ridge system

(2018) Sally A. Gibson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Extensional crustal tectonics and crust-mantle coupling, a view from the geological record

(2018) Laurent Jolivet et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Estimating emplacement rates for seaward-dipping reflectors associated with the U.S. East Coast Magnetic Anomaly

(2018) J K Davis et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Afar triple junction triggered by plume-assisted bi-directional continental break-up

(2018) Alexander Koptev et al.   Scientific Reports

How plume-ridge interaction shapes the crustal thickness pattern of the Réunion hotspot track

(2017) Eva Bredow et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Two-Branch Break-up Systems by a Single Mantle Plume: Insights from Numerical Modeling

(2017) A. Beniest et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Fluid-fluxed melting of mantle versus decompression melting of hydrous mantle plume as the cause of intraplate magmatism over a stagnant slab: Implications from Fukue Volcano Group, SW Japan

(2017) Takeshi Kuritani et al.   LITHOS

Rifted margin architecture and crustal rheology: Reviewing Iberia-Newfoundland, Central South Atlantic, and South China Sea

(2017) Sascha Brune et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Primordial helium entrained by the hottest mantle plumes

(2017) M. G. Jackson et al.   NATURE

A supercontinental boost

(2017) Adrian Lenardic   Nature Geoscience

Trench dynamics: Effects of dynamically migrating trench on subducting slab morphology and characteristics of subduction zones systems

(2017) Masaki Yoshida   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Plume-induced continental rifting and break-up in ultra-slow extension context: Insights from 3D numerical modeling

(2017) Alexander Koptev et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The role of deep subduction in supercontinent breakup

(2017) Luca Dal Zilio et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Nucleation and evolution of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Thermomechanical model and geometrical theory

(2017) Taras Gerya et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Plume-lithosphere interactions in rifted margin tectonic settings: Inferences from thermo-mechanical modelling

(2017) Thomas François et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Pacific plate motion change caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend

(2017) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   Nature Communications

Neotectonic Deformation in Central Eurasia: A Geodynamic Model Approach

(2017) Lavinia Tunini et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

A nearly water-saturated mantle transition zone inferred from mineral viscosity

(2017) Hongzhan Fei et al.   Science Advances

Long-distance impact of Iceland plume on Norway’s rifted margin

(2017) Alexander Koptev et al.   Scientific Reports

Earth evolution and dynamics—a tribute to Kevin Burke

(2016) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

3-D thermo-mechanical modeling of plume-induced subduction initiation

(2016) M. Baes et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Structural, stratigraphic and sedimentological characterisation of a wide rift system: The Triassic rift system of the Central Atlantic Domain

(2016) Sophie Leleu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Major influence of plume-ridge interaction, lithosphere thickness variations, and global mantle flow on hotspot volcanism-The example of Tristan

(2016) Rene Gassmöller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Cenozoic volcanism in the Bohemian Massif in the context of P- and S-velocity high-resolution teleseismic tomography of the upper mantle

(2016) Jaroslava Plomerová et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A failure to reject: Testing the correlation between large igneous provinces and deep mantle structures with EDF statistics

(2016) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Dynamic topography, gravity and the role of lateral viscosity variations from inversion of global mantle flow

(2016) Ting Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Teleseismic imaging of the mantle beneath southernmost China: New insights into the Hainan plume

(2016) Shaohong Xia et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Chondritic xenon in the Earth’s mantle

(2016) Antonio Caracausi et al.   NATURE

Decrease in oceanic crustal thickness since the breakup of Pangaea

(2016) Harm J. A. Van Avendonk et al.   Nature Geoscience

Lower crustal high-velocity bodies along North Atlantic passive margins, and their link to Caledonian suture zone eclogites and Early Cenozoic magmatism

(2016) Rolf Mjelde et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Contrasted continental rifting via plume-craton interaction: Applications to Central East African Rift

(2016) Alexander Koptev et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Dynamics of plume-triple junction interaction: Results from a series of three-dimensional numerical models and implications for the formation of oceanic plateaus

(2016) Mladen Dordevic et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Quantifying the influence of sill intrusion on the thermal evolution of organic-rich sedimentary rocks in nonvolcanic passive margins: an example from ODP 210-1276, offshore Newfoundland, Canada

(2015) Alexander Peace et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Topography of upper mantle seismic discontinuities beneath the North Atlantic: The Azores, Canary and Cape Verde plumes

(2015) Morvarid Saki et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Trench migration and overriding plate stress in dynamic subduction models

(2015) A. F. Holt et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

Dual continental rift systems generated by plume–lithosphere interaction

(2015) A. Koptev et al.   Nature Geoscience

Influences on the positioning of mantle plumes following supercontinent formation

(2015) Philip J. Heron et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Dynamics of hidden hotspot tracks beneath the continental lithosphere

(2014) Ting Yang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evolution of stress and fault patterns in oblique rift systems: 3-D numerical lithospheric-scale experiments from rift to breakup

(2014) Sascha Brune   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: Why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean

(2014) C. Heine et al.   GEOLOGY

Slab rollback instability and supercontinent dispersal

(2014) David Bercovici et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A review of Wilson Cycle plate margins: A role for mantle plumes in continental break-up along sutures?

(2014) Susanne J.H. Buiter et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Plume hypothesis challenged

(2014) Gillian R. Foulger et al.   NATURE

Asymmetric three-dimensional topography over mantle plumes

(2014) Evgueni Burov et al.   NATURE

Changbaishan volcanism in northeast China linked to subduction-induced mantle upwelling

(2014) Youcai Tang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deep mantle structure as a reference frame for movements in and on the Earth

(2014) T. H. Torsvik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

(2013) Claudio Faccenna et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Iceland–Jan Mayen plume system and its impact on mantle dynamics in the North Atlantic region: Evidence from full-waveform inversion

(2013) Florian Rickers et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The spatial and temporal evolution of strain during the separation of Australia and Antarctica

(2013) Philip Ball et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Hidden hotspot track beneath the eastern United States

(2013) Risheng Chu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Initiation of transform faults at rifted continental margins: 3D petrological-thermomechanical modeling and comparison to the Woodlark Basin

(2013) T. V. Gerya   PETROLOGY

The rift to break-up evolution of the Gulf of Aden: Insights from 3D numerical lithospheric-scale modelling

(2013) Sascha Brune et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Quantifying the thermo-mechanical impact of plume arrival on continental break-up

(2013) Sascha Brune et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Early India-Australia spreading history revealed by newly detected Mesozoic magnetic anomalies in the Perth Abyssal Plain

(2013) Simon E. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

A new driving mechanism for backarc extension and backarc shortening through slab sinking induced toroidal and poloidal mantle flow: Results from dynamic subduction models with an overriding plate

(2013) W. P. Schellart et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A comparison of numerical surface topography calculations in geodynamic modelling: an evaluation of the ‘sticky air’ method

(2012) F. Crameri et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Modeling suggests that oblique extension facilitates rifting and continental break-up

(2012) Sascha Brune et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Absolute plate motions in a reference frame defined by moving hot spots in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans

(2012) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Rifting, lithosphere breakup and volcanism: Comparison of magma-poor and volcanic rifted margins

(2012) Dieter Franke   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Three-dimensional thermomechanical modeling of oceanic spreading initiation and evolution

(2012) Taras V. Gerya   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Plate Tectonics, the Wilson Cycle, and Mantle Plumes: Geodynamics from the Top

(2011) Kevin Burke   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Secular trends in the geologic record and the supercontinent cycle

(2011) Dwight C. Bradley   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Reconstructions before rifting and drifting reveal the geological connections between Antarctica and its conjugates in Gondwanaland

(2011) J.J. Veevers   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Discretization errors and free surface stabilization in the finite difference and marker-in-cell method for applied geodynamics: A numerical study

(2011) T. Duretz et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A geodynamic model of plumes from the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces

(2011) Bernhard Steinberger et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The effects of lithospheric thickness and density structure on Earth's stress field

(2011) J.B. Naliboff et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Lithospheric control on the spatial pattern of Azores hotspot seafloor anomalies: Constraints from a model of plume-triple junction interaction

(2011) Jennifer E. Georgen   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Rheology and strength of the lithosphere

(2011) Evgene B. Burov   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Linking mantle plumes, large igneous provinces and environmental catastrophes

(2011) Stephan V. Sobolev et al.   NATURE

Magmatic breakup as an explanation for magnetic anomalies at magma-poor rifted margins

(2011) Adrien Bronner et al.   Nature Geoscience

Structure of the Gabon Margin from integrated seismic reflection and gravity data

(2011) Stéphanie Dupré et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Detailed three-dimensional shear wave velocity structure of the northwestern United States from Rayleigh wave tomography

(2010) Lara Wagner et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

An alternative early opening scenario for the Central Atlantic Ocean

(2010) Cinthia Labails et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle Anchor Structure: An argument for bottom up tectonics

(2010) Adam M. Dziewonski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Supercontinents, mantle dynamics and plate tectonics: A perspective based on conceptual vs. numerical models

(2010) Masaki Yoshida et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Plume-like upper mantle instabilities drive subduction initiation

(2010) Evgueni Burov et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Antarctica — Before and after Gondwana

(2010) Steven D. Boger   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The role of the gravitational potential of the lithosphere in the formation of a global stress field

(2010) A. I. Koptev et al.   IZVESTIYA-PHYSICS OF THE SOLID EARTH

U-Pb Ages, Pb-Os Isotope Ratios, and Platinum-Group Element (PGE) Composition of the West-Central Madagascar Flood Basalt Province

(2010) Ciro Cucciniello   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

A model for the evolution of the Earth's mantle structure since the Early Paleozoic

(2010) Nan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Geodynamic regimes of subduction under an active margin: effects of rheological weakening by fluids and melts

(2010) T. V. GERYA et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Recurrent Cenozoic volcanic activity in the Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic)

(2010) Jaromír Ulrych et al.   LITHOS

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

Evidence for the survival of the oldest terrestrial mantle reservoir

(2010) Matthew G. Jackson et al.   NATURE

Adiabatic temperature profile in the mantle

(2010) Tomoo Katsura et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

P- andS-velocity anomalies in the upper mantle beneath Europe from tomographic inversion of ISC data

(2009) I. Koulakov et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Controls of mantle plumes and lithospheric folding on modes of intraplate continental tectonics: differences and similarities

(2009) Evgueni Burov et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

How rigid is Europe's lithosphere?

(2009) Magdala Tesauro et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Anomalously deep mantle transition zone below Central Europe: Evidence of lithospheric instability

(2009) György Hetényi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow

(2009) Robert B. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Petrological evidence for secular cooling in mantle plumes

(2009) Claude Herzberg et al.   NATURE

A new thermal and rheological model of the European lithosphere

(2009) Magdala Tesauro et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Long term stability in deep mantle structure: Evidence from the ~300 Ma Skagerrak-Centered Large Igneous Province (the SCLIP)

(2008) T TORSVIK et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Stresses that drive the plates from below: Definitions, computational path, model optimization, and error analysis

(2008) Peter Bird et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Lower-crustal intrusion on the North Atlantic continental margin

(2008) R. S. White et al.   NATURE

Subduction initiation by thermal–chemical plumes: Numerical studies

(2008) Kosuke Ueda et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Mantle fabric of western Bohemian Massif (central Europe) constrained by 3D seismic P and S anisotropy

(2008) Vladislav Babuška et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The structure of the lower crust at the Argentine continental margin, South Atlantic at 44°S

(2008) Michael Schnabel et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

3D Thermo-mechanical modelling of a stretched continental lithosphere containing localized low-viscosity anomalies (the soft-point theory of plate break-up)

(2008) Sébastien Gac et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Lower crustal composition and crustal lineaments on the Vøring Margin, NE Atlantic: A review

(2008) R. Mjelde et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Revised definition of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs)

(2007) Scott E. Bryan et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Modelling of thermochemical plumes and implications for the origin of the Siberian traps

(2007) Nickolay L. Dobretsov et al.   LITHOS

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

(2007) Z.X. Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH