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Birch 1975
Birch, F.S. (1975). Conductive heat flow anomalies over a hot spot in a moving medium. Journal of Geophysical Research 80: doi: 10.1029/JB080i035p04825. issn: 0148-0227.

A simple mathematical model of conductive heat flow from a hot spot in a moving medium shows that as the speed increases, the surface heat flow anomalies become weaker, narrower transverse to the motion, steeper upstream, and flatter downstream. The peak of the anomaly shifts downstream. Detectable heat flow anomalies, in this model, extensively melt the lower lithosphere.

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