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IODP Expedition 330 : drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific (2013)
Journal Article
Koppers, A. A., Yamazaki, T., Geldmacher, J., Anderson, L., Beier, C., Buchs, D. M., …Williams, R. (2013). IODP Expedition 330 : drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific. Scientific Drilling, 11-22. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-15-11-2013

Deep-Earth convection can be understood by studying hotspot volcanoes that form where mantle plumes rise up and intersect the lithosphere, the Earth's rigid outer layer. Hotspots characteristically leave age-progressive trails of volcanoes and seamou... Read More about IODP Expedition 330 : drilling the Louisville Seamount Trail in the SW Pacific.

Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot (2012)
Journal Article
Koppers, A. A., Yamazaki, T., Geldmacher, J., Gee, J. S., Pressling, N., Hoshi, H., …Williams, R. (2012). Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot. Nature Geoscience, 5(12), 911-917. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1638

Hotspots that form above upwelling plumes of hot material from the deep mantle typically leave narrow trails of volcanic seamounts as a tectonic plate moves over their location. These seamount trails are excellent recorders of Earth's deep processes... Read More about Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot.

Evaluation of the Titan2D two-phase flow model using an actual event: case study of the 2005 Vazcún Valley Lahar (2008)
Journal Article
Williams, R., Stinton, A. J., & Sheridan, M. F. (2008). Evaluation of the Titan2D two-phase flow model using an actual event: case study of the 2005 Vazcún Valley Lahar. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 177(4), 760-766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.01.045

Titan2D is a depth-averaged, thin-layer computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, suitable for simulating a variety of geophysical mass flows. Titan2D output data include flow thickness and flow momentum at each time step for all cells traversed by th... Read More about Evaluation of the Titan2D two-phase flow model using an actual event: case study of the 2005 Vazcún Valley Lahar.