The subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath North America as derived from relative plate motions

Subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath Pe

Subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath Peru as determined from seismic observations

✍ Hasegawa, Akira; Sacks, I. Selwyn 📂 Article 📅 1981 🏛 American Geophysical Union 🌐 English ⚖ 832 KB

Mesozoic plate-motion history below the

Mesozoic plate-motion history below the northeast Pacific Ocean from seismic images of the subducted Farallon slab

✍ Bunge, Hans-Peter; Grand, Stephen P. 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 Nature Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 640 KB

Relative Motion Between the Rivera and N

Relative Motion Between the Rivera and North American Plates Determined from the Slip Directions of Earthquakes

✍ Gerardo Suárez, Said H. Jaramillo, W. L. Bandy 📂 Article 📅 2013 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 561 KB

The global network of plate boundaries c

The global network of plate boundaries can be divided into two discrete subnetworks containing the spreading and subduction boundaries, respectively. We advocate that this division is a stable pattern that derives from consistency rules in rigid-plate rotations. Subduction is distributed along a single, long subnetwork, hence organizing the mantle convection as a single, long downwelling wall and two lower mantle upwelling columns, at the Pacific and African sides of the Earth, respectively. The columns should merge upward between Antarctica and Australia to reach the single, long spreading subnetwork. The flow encircles two toric volumes that escape convectional mixing and are the likely sources of the two, Atlantic–Indian and Pacific, hot spot domains.

✍ L.-E. Ricou 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 197 KB

The global network of plate boundaries can be divided into two discrete subnetworks containing the spreading and subduction boundaries, respectively. We advocate that this division is a stable pattern that derives from consistency rules in rigid‐plate rotations. Subduction is distributed along a sin