Image: Hotspots

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Description: global distribution of 45 identified hotspots
Title: Hotspots
Credit: own work (created with GMT using (#1-44) the results published in: B. Steinberger, 2000, Plumes in a convecting mantle: Models and observations for individual hotspots, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 105 (B5), pp. 11127-11152): Wiley Online Library; Anahim hotspot (#45): Smithonian Institute (eng.)
Author: Ingo Wölbern
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