The Magellan seamount trail: Implications for Cretaceous hotspot volcanism and absolute Pacific plate motion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 53-68

  Koppers, Anthony A P ^a   Staudigel, Hubert ^a,b   Wijbrans, Jan R ^a   Pringle, Malcolm S ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Hot spots; Morphology; Movement; Plate tectonics; Seamounts

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; HOT SPOT; PLATE MOTION; SEAMOUNT; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032456933     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00175-7     Document Type: Article

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