References--Plate Rotation Models

• Argus D.F., R.G. Gordon, 1991, No-net-rotation model of current plate velocities incorporating plate motion model NUVEL-1. Geophys. Res. Lett. (18) 2039-2042. (NNR-NUVEL-1, No-net-rotation)
• Argus, D. F., Gordon, R. G., and DeMets, C., 2011. Geologically current motion of 56 plates relative to the no-net-rotation reference frame, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol.12, no.11, DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003751, (NNR-MORVEL56)
• Cox., A.,  and Hart, R.B., 1986, Plate tectonics: How it works, Blackwell, p.63-84.
• DeMets, C., Gordon, R.G., Argus, D.F., and Stein, S., 1994, Effect of recent revisions to the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimates of current plate motions: Geophysical Research Letters, vol.21, no.20,pp.2191-2194. (NUVEL-1A, Pacific Plate Fixed) (NNR-NUVEL-1A No-net-rotation)
• De Mets C., R.G. Gordon, D.F. Argus, S. Stein, 1990, Current plate motions: Geophys. J. Int. (101) 425-478. (NUVEL-1, Pacific Plate Fixed)
• DeMets, C., Gordon, R. G., and Argus, D. F., 2010. Geologically current plate motions, Geophysical Journal International, v. 181, no. 1, p. 1-80, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04491.x (MORVEL)
• Drewes, H., 1998, Combination of VLBI, SLR and GPS determined station velocities for actual plate kinematic and crustal deformation models. In: M. Feissel (Ed.): Geodynamics, IAG Symposia, Springer 1998. (Actual plate kinematic models APKIM)
• Duncan, R.A., and Richards, M.A., 1991, Hotspots, mantle plumes, flood basalts, and true polar wander: Reviews of Geophysics, vol.29, no.1, p.31-50.
• Kreemer, C., W.E. Holt, and A.J. Haines, An integrated global model of present-day plate motions and plate boundary deformation, Geophys. J. Int., 154, 8-34, 2003. (GSRM model)
• Wang and Wang, 2001, EPSL, for the T22A model (obtained from GSA data repository, Wang and Liu, 2006, Geology, p.465)

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