Current plate velocities relative to the hotspots incorporating the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model

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Jul 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.1109g&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, July 1990, p. 1109-1112.

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Earth Mantle, Geodynamics, Plates (Tectonics), Structural Properties (Geology), Angular Velocity, Nasa Programs

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The NUVEL-1 model of current global relative plate velocities is presently incorporated into HS2-NUVEL1, a global model for plate velocities relative to hotspots; the results thus obtained are compared with those of the AM1-2 model of hotspot-relative plate velocities. While there are places in which plate velocities relative to the hotspots differ between HS2-NUVEL1 and AM1-2 by tens of degrees in direction and 15 mm/yr in speed, the hotspot Euler vectors differ with 95 percent confidence only for the Arabian and Indian plates. Plates attached to subducting slabs move faster relative to the hotspots than do plates without slabs.

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