Phase change in subducted lithosphere, impulse, and quantizing Earth surface deformations

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: C. O. Bowin, W. Yi, R. D. Rosson, S. T. Bolmer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: Geology; QE1-996.5; Stratigraphy; QE640-699; Emperor Seamount Chain; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-1075-2015; https://doaj.org/article/b7c629d826d64169bd193be504d5c1f9

The new paradigm of plate tectonics began in 1960 with Harry H. Hess's 1960 realization that new ocean floor was being created today and is not everywhere of Precambrian age as previously thought. In the following decades an unprecedented coming together of bathymetric, topographic, magnetic, g...