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Diachronous Deposits: a Kinematic Interpretation of the Post Jurassic Sedimentary Sequence on the Pacific Plate

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We have constructed a kinematic model which outlines the deposition of the units of the western Pacific seafloor on growing crust. The average northward component of motion for the Pacific plate has been 4.4 cm yr−1 from 100 to 30 m.y. BP and 2 cm yr−1 from 30 m.y. BP to the present.

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  1. Columbia University, New York

    B. C. HEEZEN

  2. University of California, Davis, California

    I. D. MacGREGOR

  3. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

    H. P. FOREMAN

  4. Shell Development Co., Houston

    G. FORRISTAL

  5. Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    H. HEKEL

  6. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    R. HESSE

  7. New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    R. H. HOSKINS

  8. University College London,

    E. J. W. JONES

  9. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

    A. KANEPS

  10. Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow

    V. A. KRASHENINNIKOV

  11. Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

    H. OKADA

  12. State Department of Ecology, Olympia, Washington

    M. H. RUEF

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HEEZEN, B., MacGREGOR, I., FOREMAN, H. et al. Diachronous Deposits: a Kinematic Interpretation of the Post Jurassic Sedimentary Sequence on the Pacific Plate. Nature 241, 25–32 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241025a0

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