Newly-discovered depleted intraplate volcanism records Pacific-wide plate deformation (62-47 Ma)
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Pacific-wide plate deformation (62-47 Ma) J. O’Connor, K. Hoernle, F. Hauff, J. Phipps Morgan, D. Sandwell, J. Wijbrans, P. Stoffers GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen and Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven SFB 574 and Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), University of Kiel, Germany 3 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California Department of Petrology, FALW, VU University, Amsterdam Institute for Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel
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