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Interesting, could you point at some further reading?

My wife studied volcanology, I helped her with some of the maths involved, seems like a fascinating subject!




I'm also curious about this change in terminology. I used Google Scholar for papers in 2021 and easily found geology papers using the term "hot spot".

> Hot spots are the surface expression of plumes of hotter and lighter material upwelling from the Earth’s mantle. The current number of hot spots is estimated to range between 45 and 70: these are mostly in intraplate settings, especially on oceanic lithosphere, and along divergent plate boundaries. - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65968-4_...

> Regardless of the nature and origin of hot spots and whether they are fixed or mobile, the fact remains that there is a major thermal anomaly under Iceland, commonly referred to as the “Icelandic hot spot”. - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111985092...

> The Cape Verde Islands are considered as the surface expression of a mantle plume at 500–800 km west of the African continental margin. The spatial and chronological evolution of volcanic activity, from East to West, is consistent with the slow progression of the African plate over the hotspot since at least the Oligocene - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96897-1

> Mantle plumes were discovered almost 50 years ago by Morgan and Wilson. They are long-lived (up to ~100 Ma) jets of hot matter rising from the bottom of the mantle and burning through moving lithospheric plates and continents in hot spots, forming large magmatic provinces. - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1028334X21090191

To be clear, this only shows that some geologists use the term. It may be a small and decreasing minority found only because that's the specific search term I was looking for.




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