DYNAMICS OF PLATE INTERIORS, GEODYNAMICS SERIES, VOL. 1, PAGES 129–130, 1980

Observations of movements and stress in plate interiors: Introduction

William M. Kaula

Department of Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Abstract

The inferences discussed in Parts I, II and III depend on geological ohservations supplemented by radiometric measurements. Consequently, the data record for movements in plate interiors is incomplete in several ways: in variables measured, in geographic extent and in coverage of the temporal spectrum. Thus, for example, the measurement of the post-glacial rebound which occurred before modern times is largely confined to Carbon-14 datable shorelines, while stratigraphy unavoidably averages out most fluctuations of less than a 1000-year timescale.

Citation: Kaula, W. M., (1980), Observations of movements and stress in plate interiors: Introduction, in Dynamics of Plate Interiors, Geodyn. Ser., vol. 1, edited by A. W. Bally et al., pp. 129-130, AGU, Washington, D. C.

Copyright 1980 by the American Geophysical Union.