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Kinks and circuits

Nature volume 430, pages 151–153 (2004)Cite this article

Flow in the Earth's mantle buffets ascending mantle plumes, causing surface ‘hotspots’ to move relative to each other. A chain of deduction offers solutions to an age-old puzzle about hotspot behaviour.

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