Plate tectonics and net lithosphere rotation over the past 150 My

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 106-112

  Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c   Steinberger, Bernhard ^a,b,d   Gurnis, Michael ^e   Gaina, Carmen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

global digital palaeo plate boundaries; net lithosphere rotation; plate tectonics; stage poles; westward drift

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION/DECELERATION; GLOBAL DIGITAL PALAEO-PLATE BOUNDARIES; IMPROVED MODELS; INDIAN PLATE; JURASSIC; LINEAR TIME; LITHOSPHERIC; OCEANIC CRUST; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE MODEL; PLATE MOTIONS; PLATE TECTONICS; TERTIARY PEAK;

POLES; ROTATION;

TECTONICS;

INDIAN PLATE; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; ROTATION; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 75949116912     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.055     Document Type: Article

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