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Hotspot Tracks

Hotspot Tracks is a geological construct consisting of a linear sequence of volcanic features formed by the movement of a tectonic plate over a persistent mantle plume, distinguished from other volcanic chains by its age-progressive morphology and fixed source location.

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Hotspot Trails

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Young tracks of hotspots and current plate velocities

Alice E. Gripp, Richard G. Gordon · Geophysical Journal International · 2002 · 894 citations

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Revised plate motions relative to the hotspots from combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean hotspot tracks

R. Dietmar Müller, Jean‐Yves Royer, Lawrence A. Lawver · Geology · 1993 · 615 citations

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Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic

W. Jason Morgan · Tectonophysics · 1983 · 574 citations

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The Emperor Seamounts: Southward Motion of the Hawaiian Hotspot Plume in Earth's Mantle

J. A. Tarduno, Robert A. Duncan, David W. Scholl et al. · Science · 2003 · 407 citations

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Iceland hotspot track

Lawrence A. Lawver, Reidar Müller · Geology · 1994 · 367 citations

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Authors

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  1. KH
    Kaj Hoernle

    GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

    6 publications · 352 citations

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  2. FH
    Folkmar Hauff

    GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

    6 publications · 352 citations

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  3. BS
    Bernhard Steinberger

    GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany

    5 publications · 814 citations

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  4. RD
    R. Dietmar Müller

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    4 publications · 809 citations

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  5. MG
    Matthew G. Jackson

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    4 publications · 192 citations

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Institutions

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  1. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

    Kiel, Germany

    8 h-index

    32 publications

    2K citations

  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    756 citations

  3. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    4.7K citations

  4. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

    Kiel, Germany

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    486 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    312 citations

  6. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    1K citations

  7. Geological Survey of Norway

    Trondheim, Norway

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    704 citations

  8. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    14 publications · 692 citations

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  2. Geology

    11 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. Geophysical Research Letters

    7 publications · 178 citations

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  4. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

    6 publications · 319 citations

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  5. Nature

    5 publications · 602 citations

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