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Blog Posts Tagged "Pacific Plate"

Why Can’t the Louisville Hotspot Walk in a Straight Line?

Submitted by Kevin Kurtz on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 14:41
Topics:
  • East Pacific Rise
  • expedition 330
  • hotspot
  • Louisville seamount trail
  • Pacific Plate
  • plate tectonics
  • seafloor spreading
  • seamounts
  • subduction zones

Hotspots have been thought for a long time to be fixed underneath the lithosphere.

  • Kevin Kurtz's blog
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