| Literature DB >> 12881572 |
John A Tarduno1, Robert A Duncan, David W Scholl, Rory D Cottrell, Bernhard Steinberger, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Bryan C Kerr, Clive R Neal, Fred A Frey, Masayuki Torii, Claire Carvallo.
Abstract
The Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot track has a prominent bend, which has served as the basis for the theory that the Hawaiian hotspot, fixed in the deep mantle, traced a change in plate motion. However, paleomagnetic and radiometric age data from samples recovered by ocean drilling define an age-progressive paleolatitude history, indicating that the Emperor Seamount trend was principally formed by the rapid motion (over 40 millimeters per year) of the Hawaiian hotspot plume during Late Cretaceous to early-Tertiary times (81 to 47 million years ago). Evidence for motion of the Hawaiian plume affects models of mantle convection and plate tectonics, changing our understanding of terrestrial dynamics.Year: 2003 PMID: 12881572 DOI: 10.1126/science.1086442
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728