RT Journal Article
T1 The Canary hotspot revisited: Refutation of the Hawaii paradigm and an alternative, plate-based hypothesis
A1 Anguita Virella, Francisco
A1 Fernández Rodríguez, Carlos
A1 Márquez González, Álvaro
A1 León Buendía, Ricardo
A1 Casillas, Ramón
AB Fifty years after the first modern hypotheses on the origin of the Canary Islands were put forward, a consensus on this topic seems more and more elusive. Earth scientists use increasingly sophisticated methods to refine hypotheses like the mantle plume, but they often acknowledge that the model is plagued with many inconsistencies. This work is centred around four main ideas: 1) To falsify (in the sense of Popper, 1959) the Hawaii paradigm for the Canary Islands, 2) to define this group of islands as a weakened lithospheric intraplate feature, hence introducing a plate-based paradigm, 3) to prove a genetic connection between the Canaries and the Atlas Mountains, and 4) to integrate for the first time the Canary Islands in the Nubia Plate kinematics.
PB Elsevier
SN 0012-8252
YR 2025
FD 2025-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118110
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118110
LA eng
NO Anguita, F., Fernández, C., Márquez, Á., León, R., & Casillas, R. (2025). The Canary hotspot revisited: Refutation of the Hawaii paradigm and an alternative, plate-based hypothesis. Earth-Science Reviews, 261, 105038
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025