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Gordon et al. 1978

Gordon, R.G., Cox, A. and Harter, C. (1978). Absolute motion of an individual plate estimated from its ridge and trench boundaries. Nature 274(5673): 752-755.

A method is presented for estimating the absolute motion of an individual plate using only the locations of trenches or ridges along the boundary of the plate. The change in trend of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain is shown to be consistent with a change during the early Cainozoic in absolute plate motion produced by a change in the location of ridges and trenches along the boundary of the Pacific plate.

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Keywords
absolute plate motion, Cenozoic, East Pacific Ocean Islands, Emperor Seamounts, evolution, Hawaii, movement, North Pacific, Northwest Pacific, Oceania, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Plate, plate, boundary, plate tectonics, plates, Polynesia, ridges, seamounts, Tertiary, theoretical studies, trenches, United States, West, Pacific, 18, Solid-earth geophysics

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Nature
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