the Magellan Seamount Trail

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Void of Seamounts
Hawaiian Hotspot
High Concentration of Cretaceous Seamounts
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• Includes all Oceanic Plateaus and Continental
  Flood Basalts
• But also all Seamount Trails

Coffin and Eldholm (1993)
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Crough (1983)
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Putrika et al. (2007)
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• More Chaotic
• How Test Predictions?

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Wessel (1997)
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Koppers et al. (2003)
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Wessel et al. (2006)
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Cande et al. (1995)
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15 Shift in Paleolatitude
Today's LatitudeHawaii
Tarduno et al. (2003)
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Looks Better when Averaged
Today's LatitudeHawaii
Tarduno et al. (2003)
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Steinberger et al. (2004)
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• Return Flow Opposite direction from plate motion
  at mid-mantle depths

Stock (2003)
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Lowman et al. (2003)
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Koppers et al. (2004)
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Wessel et al. (2006)
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Koppers and Staudigel (2005)
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Koppers and Staudigel (2005)
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Wessel et al. (2006)
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AMAT02RR Cruise, Louisville Ridge, January-March
2006 Site Survey Expedition for IODP Drilling
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Unpublished Data
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Steinberger et al. (2004 2006)Koppers et al.
(2004)
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Tarduno et al. (unpublished data)
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Vanderkluysen et al. (2007)
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Courtillot et al. (2003)
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Wessel et al. (2006)