Testing the fixed hotspot hypothesis using 40Ar/39Ar age progressions along seamount trails

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 185, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 237-252

  Koppers, Anthony A P ^a   Morgan, Jason Phipps ^a   Morgan, Jason W ^b   Staudigel, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Geochronology; Hot spots; Movement; Pacific plate; Plate tectonics; Seamounts

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; HOT SPOT; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAMOUNT;

EID: 0035101516     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00387-3     Document Type: Article

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