Relative motions of hotspots in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans since late Cretaceous time
Combinations of global plate reconstructions reveal average velocities for the last 50 to 65 million years of 10 to 20 mm yr^(−1) between the Hawaiian hotspot and those beneath Iceland, Tristan da Cunha, Réunion, St. Paul's Island, and Kerguelen. Therefore hotspots do not define a fixed refe...
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ftcaltechauth:oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:6wrkv-3xj19 2024-06-23T07:54:00+00:00 Relative motions of hotspots in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans since late Cretaceous time Molnar, Peter Stock, Joann 1987-06-18 https://doi.org/10.1038/327587a0 unknown Nature Publishing Group https://doi.org/10.1038/327587a0 oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:6wrkv-3xj19 eprintid:49321 resolverid:CaltechAUTHORS:20140908-093025883 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Other Nature, 327(6123), 587-591, (1987-06-18) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1987 ftcaltechauth https://doi.org/10.1038/327587a0 2024-06-12T02:37:26Z Combinations of global plate reconstructions reveal average velocities for the last 50 to 65 million years of 10 to 20 mm yr^(−1) between the Hawaiian hotspot and those beneath Iceland, Tristan da Cunha, Réunion, St. Paul's Island, and Kerguelen. Therefore hotspots do not define a fixed reference frame. Uncertainties in these reconstructions are less than the errors incurred by assuming fixed hotspots and less than the differences among various proposed frames of reference of fixed hotspots. © 1987 Nature Publishing Group. Received 16 December 1986; accepted 21 April 1987. W. W. Sager offered helpful comments on the manuscript. This research was supported primarily by the NSF. J.M.S. also received support from a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Caltech Authors (California Institute of Technology) Indian Kerguelen Pacific Tristan ENVELOPE(140.900,140.900,-66.735,-66.735) Nature 327 6123 587 591 |
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Combinations of global plate reconstructions reveal average velocities for the last 50 to 65 million years of 10 to 20 mm yr^(−1) between the Hawaiian hotspot and those beneath Iceland, Tristan da Cunha, Réunion, St. Paul's Island, and Kerguelen. Therefore hotspots do not define a fixed reference frame. Uncertainties in these reconstructions are less than the errors incurred by assuming fixed hotspots and less than the differences among various proposed frames of reference of fixed hotspots. © 1987 Nature Publishing Group. Received 16 December 1986; accepted 21 April 1987. W. W. Sager offered helpful comments on the manuscript. This research was supported primarily by the NSF. J.M.S. also received support from a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. |
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