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http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/09/scientists-confirm-existence-largest-sing=
le-volcano-earth?et_cid=3D3465578&et_rid=3D54758454&type=3Dcta
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A reasonable grant from NSF to our national institution on geophysics, and,
I think, it could shed some light on the nature of the rise :-)

>From William W. Sager, "Tectonic Evolution of Shatsky Rise: A Plateau
Formed by a Plume Head or Not?"
< http://www.mantleplumes.org/Shatsky.html > (accessed Sep-7,2013)
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Perhaps the most curious observation that does not fit the plume head model
well is the remarkable spatial coincidence of Shatsky Rise and other
plateaus with spreading ridges at triple junctions. Not only did Shatsky
Rise form at a triple junction, but so did the Magellan and Manihiki
plateaus. Moreover, other plateaus, whose relationships to ridges are less
clear because they formed during the Cretaceous Normal Superchron (Hess
Rise and Ontong Java Plateau), are in locations that suggest that they too
were formed at triple junctions or spreading ridges. Unless there is some
mechanism causes ridges and triple junctions to jump to or migrate rapidly
toward plumes (e.g., *Mahoney & Spenser*, 1991), these coincidences imply
that the ridges somehow cause the upwelling.
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