Relative hotspot motions versus True Polar Wander

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-200

  Torsvik, T H ^a   Van Der Voo, R ^b   Redfield, T F ^c  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Apparent polar wandering; Hot spots; Paleomagnetism; Reconstruction; True polar wander

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TERTIARY;

EID: 0037106981     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00807-5     Document Type: Article

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