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Hotspotting called into question

Nature volume 396, pages 127–128 (1998)Cite this article

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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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