Continental Mantle Plumes: Origin, Evolution, Surface Expression and Fate; What Do We Really Know?
Session chaired by Marjorie Wilson 13:00 KEYNOTE The Role of Mantle Plumes in the Break-Up of Gondwana: Hawkesworth C, Kelley S, Turner S & Gallagher K (MS07:THpm21:F6). 13:30 The Transition from Flood to Shield Volcanism in the Ethiopian Volcanic Province: Kieffer B, Arndt N, Bosch D, Weis D, Ayalew D, Yirgu G, CouliƩ E & Quidelleur X (MS07:THpm23:F6). 13:45 More about Rare Gases in Kola Devonian Plume: The Most Degassed Giant Alkaline Complexes Khibiny and Lovozero: Ikorsky S, Nivin V, Balaganskaya E, Kamensky I, Tolstikhin I & Gannibal M (MS07:THpm24:F6). 14:00 Light Noble Gas Systematics of Ultramafic Rocks of the Northern Red Sea: Tracing a Mantle Plume: Hopp J, Mario T & Rainer A (MS07:THpm25:F6). 14:15 The Northernmost CAMP: 40Ar/39Ar Age, Petrology and Sr-Nd-Pb Geochemistry of the Kerforne Dyke: (Brittany, France): Jourdan F, Marzoli A, Bertrand H, Cosca M & Fontignie D (MS07:THpm26:F6). 14:30 BREAK Session chaired by Uli Achauer 15:00 Evidence for a Mantle Plume beneath Kasach