Geochemical hotspot

Tab. 11.1 Element concentrations (fig g ) in common household dusts of cities and towns worldwide (not including mining towns or other industrial/geochemical hotspots). See text for description of analytical methods...

Table 11.1 provides examples of recent multi-element vacuum dust surveys in urban environments around the world, not including industrial or geochemical hotspots. The data in Table 11.1 are summarized using geometric means or medians... 

Phipps Morgan 1. (1999) Isotope topology of individual hotspot basalt arrays mixing curves of melt extraction trajectories Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems 1, 1999GC000004. 

Workman R. K., Hart S. R., Blusztajn J., Jackson M., Kurz M., and Staudigel H. (2003) Enriched mantle II. A new view from the Samoan hotspot. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. (submitted). 

Figure 3 Compilation of helium isotope data from MORBs, continental hotspots, ocean island basalts, and HIMU sources (reproduced by permission of Mineralogical Society of America from Rev. Mineral. Geochem., 2002,...

Devey C. W., Albarede E., Cheminee J.-L., Michard A., Miihe R., and Stoffers P. (1990) Active submarine volcanism on the Society hotspot swell (west Pacific) a geochemical study. J. Geophys. Res. 95, 5049-5066. 

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