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Marine magnetic anomalies as related to plate tectonics
Author(s) -
Herron E. M.,
Pitman W. C.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg013i003p00180
Subject(s) - lineation , geology , relative motion , bathymetry , seismology , magnetic anomaly , tectonics , section (typography) , motion (physics) , geophysics , plate tectonics , oceanography , physics , classical mechanics , advertising , mechanics , business
During the last 4 years, preliminary or revised analyses of magnetic lineations have been published for all the major ocean basins. These results are graphically summarized in the global lineation and geologic age maps of Pitman et al. [1974] and have also been incorporated in the bibliography for this section. Using magnetic, bathymetric, and seismic data and different mathematical techniques, Chase [1972] and B. Minster et al. (personal communication, 1974) determined models of the instantaneous relative motion of major rigid crustal plates. In addition to describing the relative motion of 11 major plates, the Minster et al. model also suggests that there has been no relative movement between various hot spots during the last 10 m.y.