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Southwest Pacific Absolute Plate Kinematic Reconstruction Reveals Major Cenozoic Tonga-Kermadec Slab Dragging

van de Lagemaat, Suzanna H.A.; van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J.; Boschman, Lydian M.; Kamp, Peter J.J.; Spakman, Wim (American Geophysical Union, 2018)

Tectonic plates subducting at trenches having strikes oblique to the absolute subducting plate motion undergo trench‐parallel slab motion through the mantle, recently defined as a form of “slab dragging.” We investigate ...