“…The areas filled with gray, light blue, and dark blue are geometries of the New Hebrides slab, Tonga-Kermadec slab, and South Loyalty slab at depths of 500, 600, and 1,100 km, respectively, imaged from tomography (Schellart et al, 2009;Schellart & Spakman, 2012). The pink filled area or circles denoting OIB-like magma are according to Gill and Whelan (1989), Oh et al (2021), andMortimer et al (2007). The gray filled strips are hot spot chains.…”