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Hotspotting called into question

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Wessel and Kroenke reply — Despite the argument of Aslanianet al.,hotspotting is a valid technique. It is complementary to backtracking in that it constitutes a different representation of the same hotspot-plate motion relationship in which geometry and time are separated.

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Wessel, P., Kroenke, L. Hotspotting called into question. Nature 396, 127–128 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/24073

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