Speculations on Cretaceous tectonic history of the northwest Pacific and a tectonic origin for the Hawaii hotspot

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 430, Issue , 2007, Pages 451-470

  Norton, Ian O ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hawaii; Hotspots; North Pacific; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANOES;

ANOMALOUS SPREADING; HAWAII; HOTSPOTS; MAGNETIC LINEATIONS; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MESOZOIC SEQUENCES; NORTH PACIFIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CRETACEOUS; HOT SPOT; JURASSIC; MANTLE PLUME; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRIPLE JUNCTION; TROUGH; VOLCANISM;

HESS RISE; KAMCHATKA; KULA; MANISA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHATSKY RISE; TURKEY;

EID: 75749091259     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(22)     Document Type: Article

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