Reply to comment by Hillis et al. (2013)

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: White, N. J., Mackay, L. M., Jones, S. M., Lovell, J. P. B., Davis, M. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; Greenland; Reykjanes; Mackay; Arrowsmith; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2879/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2879/1/White%20et%20al.%20-%202013%20-%20Reply%20to%20comment%20by%20Hillis%20et%20al.%20%282013%29.pdf; http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/194/2/680; https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt132

We agree that there is now convincing evidence which favours the idea that a region encompassing the British Isles is dynamically supported by convective circulation beneath the lithospheric plate. For example, the coincidence of a long wavelength (>800 km) free-air gravity anomaly with anomalous...