Toward a self-consistent, high-resolution absolute plate motion model for the Pacific

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Wessel, Paul ^a   Harada, Yasushi ^b   Kroenke, Loren W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hawaii emperor bend; Hot spots; Plate motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447524788     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001000     Document Type: Article

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