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Tarduno et al. 2003

Tarduno, J.A., Duncan, R.A., Scholl, D.W., Cottrell, R.D., Steinberger, B., Thordarson, T., Kerr, B.C., Neal, C.R., Frey, F.A., Torii, M. and Carvallo, C. (2003). The Emperor Seamounts: Southward motion of the Hawaiian hotspot plume in earth's mantle. Science 301(5636): 1,064-1,069.

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 de. ne an age-progressive paleolatitude history, indicating that the Emperor Sea-mount 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.

BACKGROUND DATA FILES

	Abstract

	Paleolatitude Data from ODP Leg 197
	Average Paleolatitude Value for Detroit Seamount

	Introduction to Southward Hotspot Motion
	Paleolatitude History
	Implications of Hotspot Motion

Keywords
atlantic hotspots, geomagnetic-field, plate motions, pacific, apparent

Journal
Science
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