Quantification of Pacific Plate Hotspot Tracks Since 80 Ma

Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation

(2020) R. Sutherland et al.   GEOLOGY

Eocene (46–44 Ma) Onset of Australia‐Pacific Plate Motion in the Southwest Pacific Inferred From Stratigraphy in New Caledonia and New Zealand

(2020) Edoardo Dallanave et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

High‐Resolution 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Geochronology of the Louisville Seamounts IODP Expedition 330 Drill Sites: Implications for the Duration of Hotspot‐related Volcanism and Age Progressions

(2019) D.E. Heaton et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Uncertainties in Trends of Young Hotspot Tracks

(2019) Chengzu Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Observational Test of the Global Moving Hot Spot Reference Frame

(2019) Chengzu Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Hotspot motion caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend and LLSVPs are not fixed

(2019) Richard K. Bono et al.   Nature Communications

High-resolution reconstructions and GPS estimates of India-Eurasia and India-Somalia plate motions: 20 Ma to the present

(2019) C DeMets et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Assessing Models for Pacific Absolute Plate and Plume Motions

(2019) Paul Wessel et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The Late Mesozoic‐Cenozoic Arctic Ocean Climate and Sea Ice History: A Challenge for Past and Future Scientific Ocean Drilling

(2019) Ruediger Stein   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

A Geologist Reflects on a Long Career

(2018) Dan MKenzie   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Pacific Plate Apparent Polar Wander, Hot Spot Fixity, and True Polar Wander During the Formation of the Hawaiian Island and Seamount Chain From an Analysis of the Skewness of Magnetic Anomaly 20r (44 Ma)

(2018) Lin Zheng et al.   TECTONICS

On the relative motions of long-lived Pacific mantle plumes

(2018) Kevin Konrad et al.   Nature Communications

Sr–Pb–Nd–Hf isotopes and 40Ar/39Ar ages reveal a Hawaii–Emperor-style bend in the Rurutu hotspot

(2018) V.A. Finlayson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Southwest Pacific Absolute Plate Kinematic Reconstruction Reveals Major Cenozoic Tonga-Kermadec Slab Dragging

(2018) Suzanna H. A. van de Lagemaat et al.   TECTONICS

Late Cenozoic unification of East and West Antarctica

(2018) Roi Granot et al.   Nature Communications

Paleolatitude of the Hawaiian Hot Spot Since 48 Ma: Evidence for a Mid-Cenozoic True Polar Stillstand Followed by Late Cenozoic True Polar Wander Coincident With Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

(2018) Daniel Woodworth et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Bounds on geologically current rates of motion of groups of hot spots

(2017) Chengzu Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The Malpelo Plate Hypothesis and implications for nonclosure of the Cocos-Nazca-Pacific plate motion circuit

(2017) Tuo Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Anisotropic Horizontal Thermal Contraction of Young Oceanic Lithosphere Inferred From Stress Release Due To Oceanic Intraplate Earthquakes

(2017) Ryohei Sasajima et al.   TECTONICS

Pacific plate motion change caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend

(2017) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   Nature Communications

The Late Cretaceous to recent tectonic history of the Pacific Ocean basin

(2016) Nicky M. Wright et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Revision of Paleogene plate motions in the Pacific and implications for the Hawaiian-Emperor bend: COMMENT

(2016) Douglas S. Wilson   GEOLOGY

High-resolution reconstructions of Pacific–North America plate motion: 20 Ma to present

(2016) C. DeMets et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Plate kinematics of the Rocas Verdes Basin and Patagonian orocline

(2016) Graeme Eagles   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A rapid burst in hotspot motion through the interaction of tectonics and deep mantle flow

(2016) Rakib Hassan et al.   NATURE

The rigid-plate and shrinking-plate hypotheses: Implications for the azimuths of transform faults

(2016) Jay Kumar Mishra et al.   TECTONICS

Absolute plate motion of Africa around Hawaii-Emperor bend time

(2015) S. M. Maher et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

A record of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc

(2015) Richard J. Arculus et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deformation of Indian Ocean lithosphere: Evidence for a highly nonlinear rheological law

(2015) Richard G. Gordon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Sensitivity experiments on True Polar Wander

(2014) Marianne Greff-Lefftz et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Pacific plate deformation from horizontal thermal contraction

(2014) Corné Kreemer et al.   GEOLOGY

The anticorrelated velocities of Africa and India in the Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic

(2014) Steven C. Cande et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure

(2014) D. T. Sandwell et al.   SCIENCE

Tests of fixity of the Indo-Atlantic hot spots relative to Pacific hot spots

(2014) Emilia A. Koivisto et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Dating the India–Eurasia collision through arc magmatic records

(2013) Pierre Bouilhol et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Constraints on past plate and mantle motion from new ages for the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain

(2013) John M. O'Connor et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Cretaceous to present kinematics of the Indian, African and Seychelles plates

(2013) Graeme Eagles et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Seafloor spreading anomalies and crustal ages of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

(2013) Udo Barckhausen et al.   MARINE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway

(2013) P. K. Bijl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Basalts erupted along the Tongan fore arc during subduction initiation: Evidence from geochronology of dredged rocks from the Tonga fore arc and trench

(2012) Sebastian Meffre et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Absolute plate motions in a reference frame defined by moving hot spots in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans

(2012) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Quantifying the forces needed for the rapid change of Pacific plate motion at 6Ma

(2011) Jacqueline Austermann et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

New40Ar/39Ar age progression for the Louisville hot spot trail and implications for inter-hot spot motion

(2011) Anthony A. P. Koppers et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Seamount Catalog: Seamount Morphology, Maps, and Data Files

(2011) Anthony Koppers et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Motion between the Indian, Antarctic and African plates in the early Cenozoic

(2010) Steven C. Cande et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Geologically current plate motions

(2010) Charles DeMets et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

True polar wander since 32 Ma B.P.: A paleomagnetic investigation of the skewness of magnetic anomaly 12r on the Pacific plate

(2010) Benjamin C. Horner-Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Observations of geometry and ages constrain relative motion of Hawaii and Louisville plumes

(2009) Paul Wessel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Horizontal thermal contraction of oceanic lithosphere: The ultimate limit to the rigid plate approximation

(2009) Ravi R. Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The Bent Hawaiian-Emperor Hotspot Track: Inheriting the Mantle Wind

(2009) John Tarduno et al.   SCIENCE

Revised Pacific-Antarctic plate motions and geophysics of the Menard Fracture Zone

(2008) Marcel B. Croon et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Space geodetic test of kinematic models for the Indo-Australian composite plate

(2008) Richard G. Gordon et al.   GEOLOGY

Pacific absolute plate motion since 145 Ma: An assessment of the fixed hot spot hypothesis

(2008) Paul Wessel et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH