The thermal state of the upper mantle; No role for mantle plumes

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Primary magmas and mantle temperatures through time (2017, background): “We suggest that insulation of the mantle beneath Pangea [Anderson, 2000; Coltice et al., 2007; L enardic et al., 2011; Rey, 2015; Ganne et al., 2016; Van Avendonk, 2017] contributes to the generation of mantle plume-like clusters in the Permian, with elevated Tp values (Tp maxima), impacting the…”
Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow (2009, background): “And some authors (Anderson, 2000; Foulger, 2002; Foulger et al., 2005) argue that plumes do not exist at all, but are associatedwith volcanism related to shallow processes such as intraplate deformation resulting from the non-rigidity of plates, and to compositional variability in”
Hotspots, mantle plumes and core heat loss (2002, background): “The remaining seamounts could be either of shallow origin [39] or the surface expression of short-lived and weak plumes that are easily obtained in high Rayleigh number internally heated convection.”