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Figure 1: Summary of the evidence from which Helmberger et al. 1 and Russell et al.2 infer that the origins of the Iceland and Hawaii mantle plumes lie at the core-mantle boundary.

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Wolfe, C. Prospecting for hotspot roots. Nature 396, 212–213 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/24258

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