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Gordon 1982
Gordon, R.G. (1982). Paleomagnetic test of the Emperor fracture zone hypothesis. Geophysical Research Letters 9: doi: 10.1029/GL009i011p01283. issn: 0094-8276.

Late Cretaceous paleomagnetic data from the Pacific plate were used to test Farrar and Dixon's [1981> hypothesis that ~1700 km of strike-slip accumulated during the early Tertiary along the Emperor fracture zone system, and 8000 km long NW-SE trending features, which consists mainly of the Emperor trough, the Gardner seamounts, and the Line Islands. The data strongly disagree with this hypothesis; instead the data are consistent with no motion having occurred between seafloor east of the Emperor fracture zone and seafloor west of the Emperor fracture zone.

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