Torsvik, T.H.; Doubrovine, P. V.; Steinberger, B.; Gaina, C.; Spakman, W.; Domeier, M.
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06)
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 ...