Current plate velocities relative to hotspots: Implications for hotspot motion, mantle viscosity and global reference frame

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 133-140

  Wang, Shimin ^a   Wang, Ren ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convection; Hot spots; Mantle; Models; Plate tectonics; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; HOT SPOT; MANTLE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034895847     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00351-X     Document Type: Article

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