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SUBMITTER: Torsvik TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465363 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Torsvik Trond H TH Doubrovine Pavel V PV Steinberger Bernhard B Gaina Carmen C Spakman Wim W Domeier Mathew M
Nature communications 20170605
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 these two causes. Palaeomagnetic data from the Emperor Seamounts prove ambiguous for constraining the Hawaiian hotspot drift, but mantle flow modelling suggests that the hotspot drifted 4-9° south bet ...[more]