• DOI:10.1038/nature05675
Corpus ID: 4420814

Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate

@article{Eaton2007SeismicEF,
  title={Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate},
  author={D. Eaton and A. Frederiksen},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={446},
  pages={428-431}
}

• D. Eaton, A. Frederiksen
• Published 2007
• Environmental Science, Medicine
• Nature

Since the discovery of plate tectonics, the relative importance of driving forces of plate motion has been debated. Resolution of this issue has been hindered by uncertainties in estimates of basal traction, which controls the coupling between lithospheric plates and underlying mantle convection. Hotspot tracks preserve records of past plate motion and provide markers with which the relative motion between a plate’s surface and underlying mantle regions may be examined. Here we show that the… Expand

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