Moving hotspots or reorganized plates?

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 465-468

  Wang, Shimin ^a,b   Liu, Mian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hotspots; Models; Plate motion; Plate tectonics; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

HOTSPOT; PLATE MOTION; PLATE REORGANIZATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

HOT SPOT; MANTLE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745327845     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22236.1     Document Type: Article

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