Hot Spots on the Earth's Surface

• 1 August 1976
• journal article
• Published by Springer Nature in Scientific American
• Vol. 235  (2) , 46-59
• https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0876-46

Abstract

Keywords

• HEAT TRANSFER
• CONVECTION
• PLATE TECTONICS
• DISTRIBUTION
• HOT SPOTS
• EARTH MANTLE
• ENERGY TRANSFER
• SEA FLOOR SPREADING
• VOLCANISM
• GEOSCIENCES
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• VOLCANOES
• HOT SPOT
• SUBDUCTION ZONE
• PLATE TECTONIC