The Yellowstone Hotspot: Plume or Not?

Intraplate hotspots, frequently expressing themselves as age-progressive eruptive centers, have long been attributed to cylindrical plumes of hot, buoyant mantle rising from great depths, perhaps as deep as the core-mantle boundary (e.g., [Morgan, 1971][1]). A deep mantle plume-derived source for

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