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Non-closure of the Cocos-Nazca-Pacific Plate-Motion Circuit and Inferred Deformation of the Cocos Plate: Where Does it Occur and Is it Diffuse or Localized?
AGU 2024
geodesy | 10 december 2024
Richard G. Gordon, Tuo Zhang, Chengzu Wang
The largest plate-circuit non-closure on Earth occurs for the Cocos-Nazca-Pacific plate motion circuit, which was previously shown to fail closure by ...
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Comparison of Rates of Motion of Hotspots Relative to the Mean Hotspot Reference Frame from Track Trends and from Age Dates
FRONTIERS IN PALEOGEOGRAPHY III POSTER
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 13 december 2023
Richard G. Gordon, Kevin Gaastra
We previously reported results from Monte Carlo inversion of the neotectonic rate of hotspot motion consistent with observed hotspot trends and object...
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Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous Apparent Polar Wander of the Pacific Plate: Implications for Pole Precision, True Polar Wander, and Plate Motion Circuits
FRONTIERS IN PALEOGEOGRAPHY I ORAL
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 11 december 2023
Richard G. Gordon, Daniel Woodworth, Kevin Gaastra
The apparent polar wander (APW) path of the Pacific plate during Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous time has important paleogeographic, global tectonic, geo...
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The Plate Motion Circuit Relating the Motion of the Pacific Plate to the Continental Plates
FRONTIERS IN PALEOGEOGRAPHY III POSTER
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 15 december 2022
Richard G. Gordon, Kevin Gaastra, Daniel Woodworth
The position of the Pacific plate relative to the continental plates during Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous time has important global tectonic and geodyn...
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The Magnitude of Neotectonic Hotspot Motion: Towards Better Absolute Reference Frames
FRONTIERS IN PALEOGEOGRAPHY III POSTER
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 15 december 2022
Kevin Gaastra, Richard G. Gordon
Hotspots, the surface manifestation of mantle plumes, offer a glimpse of the Earths deep interior and form a basis for an absolute reference frame for...
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A New Paleomagnetic Pole from Skewness of Pacific Plate Magnetic Anomalies 30n-31n and Implications for Maastrichtian Paleogeography
FRONTIERS IN PALEOGEOGRAPHY III POSTER
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 15 december 2022
Evan Ritchey, Kevin Gaastra, Richard G. Gordon
An unconventional method for estimating paleomagnetic poles arises from the analysis of the skewness of asymmetry of marine magnetic anomaly profiles ...
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Quantification of Pacific Plate Hotspot Tracks Since 80 Ma
TECTONICS
01 july 2022
Kevin Gaastra, Richard G. Gordon, Daniel Woodworth
The motion of the Pacific plate relative to Pacific hotspots produces age‐progressive chains of volcanoes. Methods of analysis of volcano loc...
Challenges to Establishing a Global Paleolatitude Framework: Paleomagnetic Inconsistencies in the Plate Circuit Through Antarctica
LINKAGES BETWEEN PALEOCLIMATE, PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, POLAR WANDER, AND TECTONIC CHANGES DURING THE PALEOGENE I ORAL
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 15 december 2021
Daniel Woodworth, Richard G. Gordon, Kevin Gaastra
The paleolatitude distribution of paleoclimate proxies and contintential landmass is an important constraint for modeling and understanding paleoclima...
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