Full Title: Relative Motions Between Oceanic and Continental Plates in the Pacific Basin
Authors: David C. Engebretson, Allan Cox, and Richard G. Gordon
Did major episodes of Mesozoic plutonism occur during times of unusually rapid plate convergence? Was the Laramide orogeny due to a change in the absolute velocity of the North American plate? Tackling these and other questions, the authors have packed this paper with hard-to-find data and some never before published: numerous tables of Euler poles describing former locations of all the known relevant plates; tables and diagrams of relative plate velocities; and map reconstructions showing former locations of the North American, Farallon, Kula, and Izanagi plates. They present a model for the displacement history for western North America, eastern Eurasia, and adjacent oceanic plates for the past 180 m.y. Says Geophysics of this paper, "It is of interest to all of us to see the far-out research being done now on the past structural history of our Earth's crust."
Published: 12/10/1985
ISBN Number: 0813722063
Pages: 59
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