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Mantle plumes persevere

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The ocean floor is littered with hundreds of thousands of mostly extinct volcanoes. The origin of at least some of these seamounts seems to rest with mantle plumes.

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Figure 1: Models of ocean-island and seamount-trail formation: Courtillot's framework6 of three hotspot types.

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  1. Anthony A. P. Koppers is at the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5503, USA,

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