PUBLICATIONS
Ballmer, M. D., P. E. van Keken, and G. Ito (2013): Hotspots, Large Igneous Provinces, and Melting Anomalies in: Mantle Dynamics, Treatise on Geophysics, 2nd edition, Ed. D. Bercovici, in press
Sakamaki, T., A. Suzuki, E. Ohtani, H. Terasaki, S. Urakawa, Y. Katayama, K.-I. Funakoshi, Y. Wang, J. W. Hernlund, M. D. Ballmer (2013): Ponded melt at the boundary between the lithosphere and asthenosphere, Nature Geoscience, in press
Ballmer, M. D., G. Ito, Wolfe, C. J., and Solomon, S. C. (2013): Double layering of a thermochemichal plume in the upper mantle beneath Hawaii, Earth Planet. Science Lett., 376, 155-164, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.022 [(pdf)] [(suppl)] [(movies)]
Ballmer, M. D., C. P. Conrad, E. I. Smith, and N. Harmon (2013): Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise, Geology, 41, 479-482, doi:10.1130/G33804.1 [(pdf)] [(suppl)]
Bianco, T. A., G. Ito, J. van Hunen, J. J. Mahoney, and M. D. Ballmer (2013): Geochemical variations at ridge-centered hotspots caused by variable melting of a veined mantle plume, Earth Planet. Science Lett., 371, 191-202 [(link)]
Cadio, C., M. D. Ballmer, I. Panet, M. Diament, and N. Ribe (2012): New constraints on the origin of the Hawaiian swell from wavelet analysis of the geoid to topography ratio, Earth Planet. Science Lett., 359, 40-54 [(pdf)]
Ballmer, M. D., G. Ito, J. van Hunen, and P. J. Tackley (2011): Small-scale convection induces spatio-temporal variability in Hawaiian volcanism, Nature Geoscience, 4, 7, 457-460 [(pdf)] [(suppl)]
Bianco, T. A., G. Ito, J. van Hunen, M. D. Ballmer, and J. J. Mahoney (2011): Geochemical variations at intraplate hot spots caused by variable melting of a veined mantle plume, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 12, Q0AC13, doi:10.1029/2011GC003658. [(pdf)]
Ballmer, M. D., G. Ito, J. van Hunen, and P. J. Tackley (2010): Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'Superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific, Earth Planet. Science Lett., 290, 40-54 [(pdf)]
Ballmer, M. D., J. van Hunen, G. Ito, T. A. Bianco, and P. J. Tackley (2009): Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns - a case for small-scale sublithospheric convection, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 10 [(pdf)]
Bianco, T. A., G. Ito, J. van Hunen, M. D. Ballmer, and J. J. Mahoney (2008): Geochemical variation at the Hawaiian hot spot caused by upper mantle dynamics and melting of a heterogeneous plume, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 9 [(pdf)]
Ballmer, M. D., J. van Hunen, G. Ito, P. J. Tackley, and T. A. Bianco (2007): Non-hotspot volcano chains originating from small-scale sublithospheric convection, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL031636 [(pdf)]


MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW OR PREPARATION
Ballmer, M. D., G. Ito, C. Cheng, and R. M. Allen: Thermochemical convection of bilaterally asymmetric plumes and implications for Hawaiian lava composition, in: Hawaiian Volcanism: From Source to Surface, AGU Monograph, Eds.: R. Carey, M. Poland and D. Weis, in review
Schmerr, N., and Ballmer, M. D.: Compositional Heterogeneity and Eclogite Enrichment of the Transition Zone constrained by velocity and density contrasts at Upper-Mantle Boundaries, in preparation
Ballmer, M. D., C. P. Conrad, E. I. Smith, and R. Johnsen: Intraplate volcanism at the edges of the Colorado Plateau sustained by a combination of edge-driven and shear-driven upwelling, in preparation


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