Plate motion changes, the Hawaiian-Emperor bend, and the apparent success and failure of geodynamic models

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 19-27

  Richards, Mark A ^a   Lithgow Bertelloni, Carolina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GEODYNAMIC MODEL; MANTLE BUOYANCY; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONOPHYSICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSFORM FAULT;

PACIFIC, HAWAIIAN-EMPEROR CHAIN; PACIFIC, HAWAIIAN-EMPEROR SEAMOUNT CHAIN;

EID: 0029752830     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(95)00209-u     Document Type: Article

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