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Science 1 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5791, pp. 1250 - 1251
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131789
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
The Hawaiian-Emperor Bend: Older Than Expected

Joann M. Stock

The kink in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain in the Pacific Ocean was initiated ~50 million years ago, at a time when major plate motion changes occurred.

The author is in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: jstock{at}gps.caltech.edu

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