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Pacific plate motion change caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend

A conspicuous 60° bend of the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain in the north-western Pacific Ocean has variously been interpreted as the result of an abrupt Pacific plate motion change in the Eocene (∼47 Ma), a rapid southward drift of the Hawaiian hotspot before the formation of the bend, or a combination of...

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Autores principales: Torsvik, Trond H., Doubrovine, Pavel V., Steinberger, Bernhard, Gaina, Carmen, Spakman, Wim, Domeier, Mathew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5465363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28580950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15660