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Nature 389, 439-440 (2 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/38883

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Earth science:  The puzzle of the South Pacific

Norman Sleep1

Since the advent of plate-tectonic theory in the 1960s, numerous attempts have been made to find order in the complicated distribution of islands and seamounts in the South Pacific. Progress has been hindered by the remoteness of the region from oceanic institutions, and hence a lack of hard data.

  1. Norman Sleep is in the Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2215, USA.