2000 - present

Anderson, D. L., 2000. Thermal State of the Upper Mantle; No Role for Mantle Plumes, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 22, 3623-3626 (Nov 2000).

Anderson, D. L., 2000. The Statistics of Helium Isotopes Along the Global Spreading Ridge System and the Central Limit Theorem, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 16, 2401-2404, 2000.

Anderson, D. L., 2000. The Statistics and Distribution of Helium in the Mantle, International Geology Review, 42, 289-311, 2000.

W. Keller, D. Anderson, And R. Clayton, 2000. Resolution of tomographic models of the mantle beneath Iceland, Geophys. Res. Letters Vol. 27, No. 24, p. 3993-3996, 2000.

J. Favela and D. Anderson, 2000. Extensional tectonics and global volcanism, in book titled Problems in Geophysics for the New Millennium. ed. Boschi, E., Ekstrom, G. and Morelli, A., Editrice Compositori, Bologna, pp. 463-498. (An additional PDF document with the figures referred to in this publication may be found here)

Anderson, D. L., 2001, Top-Down Tectonics?, Science, 293, 2016-2018. (If you are unable to access the Science article, the original paper in Acrobat PDF format can be found here)

Anderson, D. L., 2001. A statistical test of the two reservoir model for helium, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 193, 77-82.

Anderson, D. L., 2002. The Case for Irreversible Chemical Stratification of the Mantle, International Geology Review, Vol. 44, 2002, p. 97-116.

Anderson, D. L., 2002, How many Plates?, Geology, vol.30, no.5, pp.411-414. (Original submission can be found here).

Anderson, D. L., 2002. The inner inner core of Earth, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 99, 13966-13968.

Anderson, D. L. 2002. Occam's Razor; Simplicity, Complexity and Global Geodynamics, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 146, 56-76, March 2002.

Anderson, D. L., 2002. Plate Tectonics as a Far-From-Equilibrium Self-Organized System, p. 411-425 in AGU Monograph: Plate Boundary Zone, Geodynamics, Series 30, S. Stein & J. Freymuller, editors.  (Original submission can be found here).

Anderson, D. L., Mantle Plume Debate, 2003, Astronomy and Geophysics, Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 44 p. 10-11. (See www.mantleplumes.org)

Meibom, A., Anderson, D.L., Sleep, N.H., Frei, R., Chamberlain, C.P., Hren, M.T., Wooden, J.L., 2003. Are high 3He/4He ratios in oceanic basalts an indicator of deep-mantle plume components? Earth Planet Science Letters 208, pp. 197-204.

Meibom, A. and Anderson, D.L., 2003. The Statistical Upper Mantle Assemblage, Earth Planet Science Letters, 217, pp. 123-139.  (Original submission can be found here).
(See www.mantleplumes.org/Preprints.html)

Anderson, D.L., Simple scaling relations in geodynamics; the role of pressure in mantle convection, Chinese Science Bulletin 49, pp. 2017-2021.  [PDF] (An additional PDF document with the figure referred to in this publication may be found here).

Foulger, G.R. and D.L. Anderson, 2005, A cool model for the Iceland hotspot: An origin for the Icelandic volcanic province in the remelting of subducted Iapetus slabs at normal mantle temperatures, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 141, 1-22.

Foulger, G.R., J.H. Natland and D.L. Anderson, 2005. A source for Icelandic magmas in remelted Iapetus crust, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 141, 23-44.

McHone, J.G., D.L. Anderson, E.K. Beitel, and Y.A. Fialko, 2005, Giant Dikes: Patterns and Plate Tectonics, in Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C., and Anderson, D.L., eds., Plates, plumes, and paradigms: Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, p. 401-420. (Original submission can be found here).

Foulger, G. R., James H. Natland, and Don L. Anderson, 2005, Genesis of the Iceland Melt Anomaly by Plate Tectonic Processes, in Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C, and Anderson, D.L., eds., Plates, Plumes & Paradigms, Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, p.595-626.  (Original submission can be found here).

Meibom, Anders, Norman H. Sleep, Kevin Zahnle, and Don L. Anderson, 2005, Models for Noble Gases in Mantle Geochemistry: Some Observations and Alternatives, Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, pp.347-363. [PDF]

Sandwell, David, Don L. Anderson, and Paul Wessel, 2005, Global Tectonic Maps, in Plates, Plumes & Paradigms, Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C, and Anderson, D.L., eds., Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America , Special Paper 388, pp.1-10. [PDF]

Anderson, D.L. 2005. Large igneous provinces, delamination, and fertile mantle, Elements, 1, pp. 271-275.

Anderson, D.L. and Schramm, K.A., 2005, Global Hotspot Maps, in Plates, Plumes & Paradigms, Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C, and Anderson, D.L., eds., Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 388, pp. 19-29. (An additional link for maps referred to in this publication may be found here).

Anderson, D.L. 2005. Self-gravity, self-consistency, and self-organization in geodynamics and geochemistry, in Earth's Deep Mantle: Structure, Composition, and Evolution, Eds. R.D. van der Hilst, J. Bass, J. Matas & J. Trampert, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series 160, pp. 165-186.

Anderson, D.L., 2005, Scoring hotspots: The plume and plate paradigms, in Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C., and Anderson, D.L., eds., Plates, plumes, and paradigms: Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, p. 31-54

Anderson, Don L. and Natland, J. H. 2005. A brief history of the plume hypothesis and its competitors: Concept and controversy, in Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C., and Anderson, D.L., eds., Plates, Plumes, & Paradigms, GSA Special Paper 388, pp. 119-145.

Anderson, D. L., editor (with others) 2005, Plates, Plumes & Paradigms: GSA Special Paper 388, 881 pp.

Anderson, D.L., 2006, Plate Tectonics; The General Theory: The Complex Earth is Simpler Than You Think, Geol. Soc. Am., Special Paper 413, pp. 29-38.

Anderson, D.L., Speculations on the nature and cause of mantle heterogeneity, Tectonophysics, 416, 7-22, 2006.

Thybo, H. and D.L. Anderson, The heterogeneous mantle, Tectonophysics, 416, 1-6, 2006.

Anderson, D.L., 2006, Comment on the recent paper by Busse et al.: "A simple model of high Prandtl and high Rayleigh number convection bounded by thin low-viscosity layers"

Anderson, D.L., 2006, Comment on the recent review of Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms, "Heating Up the Hotspot Debate," by Paul Tackley, Science, v. 313, p. 1240-1241.

Anderson, D.L., 2007, Looking Glass Worlds, Elements, June 2007, p. 160.

Anderson, Don L., 2007, The eclogite engine: Chemical geodynamics as a Galileo thermometer, in Foulger, Gillian R. and Donna M. Jurdy, eds. The Origins of Melting Anomalies: Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes: The Geological Society of America, 974 p.

Beutel, Erin & D.L. Anderson, 2007, Ridge-crossing seamount chains; a non-thermal approach, in Foulger, Gillian R. and Donna M. Jurdy, eds. The Origins of Melting Anomalies: Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes: The Geological Society of America, 974 p.

Anderson, D. L., 2007, Seismic observations of transition zone discontinuities beneath ‘hotspot’ locations; Discussion. In: Foulger, G. R. & Jurdy, D. M. (eds) Plates, Plumes and Planetary Processes. Geological Society of America, Special Papers 430,131-134.

Anderson, D. L., 2007, Discussions. In: Foulger, G. R. & Jurdy, D. M. (eds) Plates, Plumes and Planetary Processes. Geological Society of America, Special Papers 430, Pages 42-45, 64, 89-101, 119-120, 131-136, 204-208, 229-233, 254, 411, 493-495.

Anderson, D. L. & Natland, J. H. (2007). Evidence for mantle plumes. Nature 450, E15.

Anderson, D.L., 2007, New Theory of the Earth: New York, Cambridge University Press, 384 p. (Preprint may be found here.)

Anderson, D. L., 2010, Hawaii, Boundary Layers and Ambient Mantle--Geophysical Constraints, Journal of Petrology, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egq068.

Preprints

Anderson, D. L., What Planet Do You Come From, Anyway? (book), submitted.

Anderson, Don L., Terrestrial Heat Flow and the Thermal History of the Earth, Ann. Reviews, in preparation.

Anderson, D.L., and James H. Natland, Plates & Plumes, submitted to Nature, September 2004; rejected.

Lee, Cin-Ty Aeolus, Don L. Anderson, and Xin Cheng, 2005, Continental crust formation at arcs, the “garnet pyroxenite” delamination cycle, and the origin of fertile melting anomalies in the mantle, submitted, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.