Richard G. Gordon - Publications

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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 
Area:
Geophysics

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2019 Wang C, Gordon RG, Zhang T, Zheng L. Observational Test of the Global Moving Hot Spot Reference Frame Geophysical Research Letters. 46: 8031-8038. DOI: 10.1029/2019Gl083663  0.305
2018 Zheng L, Gordon RG, Woodworth D. Pacific Plate Apparent Polar Wander, Hot Spot Fixity, and True Polar Wander During the Formation of the Hawaiian Island and Seamount Chain From an Analysis of the Skewness of Magnetic Anomaly 20r (44 Ma) Tectonics. 37: 2094-2105. DOI: 10.1029/2017Tc004897  0.375
2018 Zhang T, Gordon RG, Wang C. Oblique seafloor spreading across intermediate and superfast spreading centers Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 495: 146-156. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2018.05.001  0.453
2017 Zhang T, Gordon RG, Mishra JK, Wang C. The Malpelo Plate Hypothesis and implications for nonclosure of the Cocos-Nazca-Pacific plate motion circuit Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 8213-8218. DOI: 10.1002/2017Gl073704  0.537
2017 Wang C, Gordon RG, Zhang T. Bounds on geologically current rates of motion of groups of hot spots Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 6048-6056. DOI: 10.1002/2017Gl073430  0.504
2016 Mishra JK, Gordon RG. The rigid-plate and shrinking-plate hypotheses: Implications for the azimuths of transform faults Tectonics. 35: 1827-1842. DOI: 10.1002/2015Tc003968  0.434
2015 Huang J, Niu F, Gordon RG, Cui C. Accurate focal depth determination of oceanic earthquakes using water-column reverberation and some implications for the shrinking plate hypothesis Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 432: 133-141. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2015.10.001  0.46
2015 Gordon RG, Houseman GA. Deformation of Indian Ocean lithosphere: Evidence for a highly nonlinear rheological law Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. DOI: 10.1002/2015Jb011993  0.5
2014 Kreemer C, Gordon RG. Pacific plate deformation from horizontal thermal contraction Geology. 42: 847-850. DOI: 10.1130/G35874.1  0.502
2014 Zheng L, Gordon RG, Kreemer C. Absolute plate velocities from seismic anisotropy: Importance of correlated errors Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 119: 7336-7352. DOI: 10.1002/2013Jb010902  0.566
2014 Koivisto EA, Andrews DL, Gordon RG. Tests of fixity of the Indo-Atlantic hot spots relative to Pacific hot spots Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 119: 661-675. DOI: 10.1002/2013Jb010413  0.494
2013 Gordon RG. Diffuse Oceanic Plate Boundaries: Strain Rates, Vertically Averaged Rheology, and Comparisons With Narrow Plate Boundaries and Stable Plate Interiors Geophysical Monograph. 121: 143-159. DOI: 10.1029/Gm121P0143  0.468
2011 Koivisto EA, Gordon RG, Dyment J, Arkani-Hamed J. The spreading-rate dependence of anomalous skewness of pacific plate magnetic anomaly 32: Revisited Lithosphere. 3: 371-378. DOI: 10.1130/L167.1  0.485
2011 Argus DF, Gordon RG, Demets C. Geologically current motion of 56 plates relative to the no-net-rotation reference frame Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 12. DOI: 10.1029/2011Gc003751  0.526
2010 DeMets C, Gordon RG, Argus DF. Geologically current plate motions Geophysical Journal International. 181: 1-80. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2009.04491.X  0.585
2010 Argus DF, Gordon RG, Heflin MB, Ma C, Eanes RJ, Willis P, Peltier WR, Owen SE. The angular velocities of the plates and the velocity of Earth's centre from space geodesy Geophysical Journal International. 180: 913-960. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2009.04463.X  0.476
2010 Horner-Johnson BC, Gordon RG. True polar wander since 32 Ma B.P.: A paleomagnetic investigation of the skewness of magnetic anomaly 12r on the Pacific plate Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009Jb006862  0.775
2009 Gordon RG. Lithospheric deformation in the equatorial Indian Ocean: Timing and Tibet Geology. 37: 287-288. DOI: 10.1130/Focus032009.1  0.447
2009 Kumar RR, Gordon RG. Horizontal thermal contraction of oceanic lithosphere: The ultimate limit to the rigid plate approximation Journal of Geophysical Research. 114. DOI: 10.1029/2007Jb005473  0.463
2008 Gordon RG, Argus DF, Royer J. Space geodetic test of kinematic models for the Indo-Australian composite plate Geology. 36: 827-830. DOI: 10.1130/G25089A.1  0.442
2007 Horner-Johnson BC, Gordon RG, Argus DF. Plate kinematic evidence for the existence of a distinct plate between the Nubian and Somalian plates along the Southwest Indian Ridge Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 112. DOI: 10.1029/2006Jb004519  0.787
2006 Royer JY, Gordon RG, Horner-Johnson BC. Motion of Nubia relative to Antartica since 11 Ma: Implications for Nubia-Somalia, Pacific-North America, and India-Eurasia motion Geology. 34: 501-504. DOI: 10.1130/G22463.1  0.782
2006 Andrews DL, Gordon RG, Horner-Johnson BC. Uncertainties in plate reconstructions relative to the hotspots; Pacific-hotspot rotations and uncertainties for the past 68 million years Geophysical Journal International. 166: 939-951. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2006.03029.X  0.77
2006 Jellinek AM, Gordon RG, Zatman S. Experimental tests of simple models for the dynamics of diffuse oceanic plate boundaries Geophysical Journal International. 164: 624-632. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2005.02840.X  0.405
2005 Zatman S, Gordon RG, Mutnuri K. Dynamics of diffuse oceanic plate boundaries: insensitivity to rheology Geophysical Journal International. 162: 239-248. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2005.02622.X  0.438
2005 Horner-Johnson BC, Gordon RG, Cowles SM, Argus DF. The angular velocity of Nubia relative to Somalia and the location of the Nubia-Somalia-Antarctica triple junction Geophysical Journal International. 162: 221-238. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2005.02608.X  0.795
2005 DeMets C, Gordon RG, Royer J. Motion between the Indian, Capricorn and Somalian plates since 20 Ma: implications for the timing and magnitude of distributed lithospheric deformation in the equatorial Indian ocean Geophysical Journal International. 161: 445-468. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2005.02598.X  0.584
2003 Horner-Johnson BC, Gordon RG. Equatorial pacific magnetic anomalies identified from vector aeromagnetic data Geophysical Journal International. 155: 547-556. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-246X.2003.02065.X  0.752
2002 Lemaux J, Gordon RG, Royer J. Location of the Nubia-Somalia boundary along the Southwest Indian Ridge Geology. 30: 339-342. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0339:Lotnsb>2.0.Co;2  0.494
2002 Gripp AE, Gordon RG. Young tracks of hotspots and current plate velocities Geophysical Journal International. 150: 321-361. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-246X.2002.01627.X  0.548
2002 Kirkwood BH, Royer J, Chang TC, Gordon RG. Statistical tools for estimating and combining finite rotations and their uncertainties Geophysical Journal International. 137: 408-428. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-246X.1999.00787.X  0.373
2001 Argus DF, Gordon RG. Present tectonic motion across the Coast Ranges and San Andreas fault system in central California Geological Society of America Bulletin. 113: 1580-1592. DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1580:Ptmatc>2.0.Co;2  0.437
2001 Zatman S, Gordon RG, Richards MA. Analytic models for the dynamics of diffuse oceanic plate boundaries Geophysical Journal International. 145: 145-156. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2001.00357.X  0.432
2000 Gordon RG. Plate tectonics. The Antarctic connection Nature. 404: 139-40. PMID 10724153 DOI: 10.1038/35004703  0.526
1999 Petronotis KE, Gordon RG. A Maastrichtian palaeomagnetic pole for the Pacific plate from a skewness analysis of marine magnetic anomaly 32 Geophysical Journal International. 139: 227-247. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-246X.1999.00901.X  0.606
1999 Chu D, Gordon RG. Evidence for motion between Nubia and Somalia along the Southwest Indian ridge Nature. 398: 64-67. DOI: 10.1038/18014  0.571
1998 Gordon RG. The plate tectonic approximation: plate nonrigidity, diffuse plate boundaries, and global plate reconstructions Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 26: 615-642. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Earth.26.1.615  0.469
1998 Chu D, Gordon RG. Current plate motions across the Red Sea Geophysical Journal International. 135: 313-328. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-246X.1998.00658.X  0.527
1998 Gordon RG, DeMets C, Royer J. Evidence for long-term diffuse deformation of the lithosphere of the equatorial Indian Ocean Nature. 395: 370-374. DOI: 10.1038/26463  0.561
1997 Royer JY, Gordon RG. The motion and boundary between the Capricorn and Australian plates Science. 277: 1268-1274. DOI: 10.1126/Science.277.5330.1268  0.503
1997 Royer J, Gordon RG, DeMets C, Vogt PR. New limits on the motion between India and Australia since chron 5 (11 Ma) and implications for lithospheric deformation in the equatorial Indian Ocean Geophysical Journal International. 129: 41-74. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1997.Tb00937.X  0.624
1996 Argus DF, Gordon RG. Tests of the rigid-plate hypothesis and bounds on intraplate deformation using geodetic data from very long baseline interferometry Journal of Geophysical Research. 101: 13555-13572. DOI: 10.1029/95Jb03775  0.447
1996 Acton GD, Petronotis KE, Cape CD, Ilg SR, Gordon RG, Bryan PC. A test of the geocentric axial dipole hypothesis from an analysis of the skewness of the central marine magnetic anomaly Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 144: 337-346. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(96)00168-9  0.422
1995 Gordon RG. Plate motions, crustal and lithospheric mobility, and paleomagnetism: prospective viewpoint Journal of Geophysical Research. 100. DOI: 10.1029/95Jb01912  0.417
1994 Acton GD, Gordon RG. Paleomagnetic tests of pacific plate reconstructions and implications for motion between hotspots. Science (New York, N.Y.). 263: 1246-54. PMID 17817426 DOI: 10.1126/Science.263.5151.1246  0.504
1994 Demets C, Gordon RG, Vogt P. Location of the Africa-Australia-India Triple Junction and Motion Between the Australian and Indian Plates: Results From an Aeromagnetic Investigation of the Central Indian and Carlsberg Ridges Geophysical Journal International. 119: 893-930. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1994.Tb04025.X  0.6
1994 Petronotis KE, Gordon RG, Acton GD. A 57 Ma Pacific plate palaeomagnetic pole determined from a skewness analysis of crossings of marine magnetic anomaly 25r Geophysical Journal International. 118: 529-554. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1994.Tb03983.X  0.6
1994 DeMets C, Gordon RG, Argus DF, Stein S. Effect of recent revisions to the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimates of current plate motions Geophysical Research Letters. 21: 2191-2194. DOI: 10.1029/94Gl02118  0.474
1994 Acton GD, Gordon RG. Paleomagnetic tests of pacific plate reconstructions and implications for motion between hotspots Science. 263: 1246-1254.  0.409
1992 Gordon RG, Stein S. Global tectonics and space geodesy. Science (New York, N.Y.). 256: 333-42. PMID 17743109 DOI: 10.1126/Science.256.5055.333  0.538
1992 Petronotis KE, Gordon RG, Acton GD. Determining palaeomagnetic poles and anomalous skewness from marine magnetic anomaly skewness data from a single plate Geophysical Journal International. 109: 209-224. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1992.Tb00091.X  0.465
1992 Gordon RG, Stein S. Global tectonics and space geodesy Science. 256: 333-342.  0.46
1991 Argus DF, Gordon RG. Current Sierra Nevada-North America motion from very long baseline interferometry: implications for the kinematics of the western United States Geology. 19: 1085-1088. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<1085:Csnnam>2.3.Co;2  0.541
1991 Acton GD, Gordon RG. A 65 Ma palaeomagnetic pole for the Pacific plate from the skewness of magnetic anomalies 27r-31 Geophysical Journal International. 106: 407-420. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1991.Tb03904.X  0.464
1991 Gordon RG. Plate tectonic speed limits Nature. 349: 16-17. DOI: 10.1038/349016A0  0.427
1991 Gordon RG. Plate motions are steady Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 72: 115-115. DOI: 10.1029/Eo072I010P00115-01  0.551
1991 Gordon RG. Indian Ocean violates conventional plate tectonic theory Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 72: 113-113. DOI: 10.1029/Eo072I010P00113-01  0.54
1991 Argus DF, Gordon RG. No-net-rotation model of current plate velocities incorporating plate motion model NUVEL-1 Geophysical Research Letters. 18: 2039-2042. DOI: 10.1029/91Gl01532  0.525
1990 DeMets C, Gordon RG, Argus DF, Stein S. Current plate motions Geophysical Journal International. 101: 425-478. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1990.Tb06579.X  0.592
1990 Gordon RG, DeMets C, Argus DF. Kinematic constraints on distributed lithospheric deformation in the equatorial Indian Ocean from present motion between the Australian and Indian Plates Tectonics. 9: 409-422. DOI: 10.1029/Tc009I003P00409  0.548
1990 Argus DF, Gordon RG. Pacific-North American plate motion from very long baseline interferometry compared with motion inferred from magnetic anomalies, transform faults, and earthquake slip vectors Journal of Geophysical Research. 95. DOI: 10.1029/Jb095Ib11P17315  0.502
1990 Gordon RG. Test for bias in paleomagnetically determined paleolatitudes from Pacific plate Deep Sea Drilling Project sediments Journal of Geophysical Research. 95: 8397-8404. DOI: 10.1029/Jb095Ib06P08397  0.514
1990 Bryan P, Gordon RG. Rotation of the Colorado Plateau: an updated analysis of paleomagnetic poles Geophysical Research Letters. 17: 1501-1504. DOI: 10.1029/Gl017I010P01501  0.479
1990 Gripp AE, Gordon RG. Current plate velocities relative to the hotspots incorporating the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model Geophysical Research Letters. 17: 1109-1112. DOI: 10.1029/Gl017I008P01109  0.471
1989 Acton GD, Gordon RG. Limits on the age of the Deccan Traps of India from Paleomagnetic and plate reconstruction data and their uncertainties Journal of Geophysical Research. 94. DOI: 10.1029/Jb094Ib12P17713  0.429
1989 Argus DF, Gordon RG, DeMets C, Stein S. Closure of the Africa‐Eurasia‐North America Plate motion circuit and tectonics of the Gloria Fault Journal of Geophysical Research. 94: 5585-5602. DOI: 10.1029/Jb094Ib05P05585  0.521
1989 Gordon RG, Demets C. Present-day motion along the Owen fracture zone and Dalrymple trough in the Arabian Sea Journal of Geophysical Research. 94: 5560-5570. DOI: 10.1029/Jb094Ib05P05560  0.525
1989 Petronotis KE, Gordon RG. Age dependence of skewness of magnetic anomalies above seafloor formed at the Pacific-Kula spreading center Geophysical Research Letters. 16: 315-318. DOI: 10.1029/Gl016I004P00315  0.458
1988 Demets C, Gordon RG, Argus DF. Intraplate deformation and closure of the Australia-Antarctica-Africa plate circuit Journal of Geophysical Research. 93: 11877-11897. DOI: 10.1029/Jb093Ib10P11877  0.583
1988 Stein S, DeMets C, Gordon RG, Brodholt J, Argus D, Engeln JF, Lundgren P, Stein C, Wiens DA, Woods DF. A test of alternative Caribbean Plate relative motion models Journal of Geophysical Research. 93: 3041-3050. DOI: 10.1029/Jb093Ib04P03041  0.536
1987 Gordon RG. Polar wandering and paleomagnetism Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Vol. 15. 567-593. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Ea.15.050187.003031  0.392
1987 Gordon RG, Livermore RA. Apparent polar wander of the mean-lithosphere reference frame Geophysical Journal International. 91: 1049-1057. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1987.Tb01679.X  0.428
1987 DeMets C, Gordon RG, Stein SA, Argus DF. A revised estimate of Pacific‐North America motion and implications for Western North America Plate boundary zone tectonics Geophysical Research Letters. 14: 911-914. DOI: 10.1029/Gl014I009P00911  0.592
1987 Gordon RG, Stein SA, DeMets C, Argus DF. Statistical tests for closure of plate motion circuits Geophysical Research Letters. 14: 587-590. DOI: 10.1029/Gl014I006P00587  0.516
1986 Bryan P, Gordon RG. Rotation of the Colorado Plateau: An analysis of paleomagnetic data Tectonics. 5: 661-667. DOI: 10.1029/Tc005I004P00661  0.512
1986 Gordon RG, Jurdy DM. Cenozoic global plate motions Journal of Geophysical Research. 91: 12389-12406. DOI: 10.1029/Jb091Ib12P12389  0.563
1986 Bryan P, Gordon RG. Errors in minimum plate velocity determined from paleomagnetic data Journal of Geophysical Research. 91: 462-470. DOI: 10.1029/Jb091Ib01P00462  0.497
1986 Stein S, Engeln JF, DeMets C, Gordon RG, Woods D, Lundgren P, Argus D, Stein C, Wiens DA. The Nazca-South America convergence rate and the recurrence of the Great 1960 Chilean Earthquake Geophysical Research Letters. 13: 713-716. DOI: 10.1029/Gl013I008P00713  0.49
1986 Wiens DA, Stein S, Demets C, Gordon RG, Stein C. Plate tectonic models for Indian Ocean "intraplate" deformation Tectonophysics. 132: 37-48. DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(86)90023-5  0.577
1985 Wiens DA, DeMets C, Gordon RG, Stein S, Argus D, Engeln JF, Lundgren P, Quible D, Stein C, Weinstein S, Woods DF. A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics Geophysical Research Letters. 12: 429-432. DOI: 10.1029/Gl012I007P00429  0.524
1984 Gordon RG, Cox A, O'Hare S. Paleomagnetic Euler poles and the apparent polar wander and absolute motion of North America since the Carboniferous Tectonics. 3: 499-537. DOI: 10.1029/Tc003I005P00499  0.576
1984 Henderson LJ, Gordon RG, Engebretson DC. Mesozoic aseismic ridges on the Farallon Plate and southward migration of shallow subduction during the Laramide Orogeny Tectonics. 3: 121-132. DOI: 10.1029/Tc003I002P00121  0.467
1984 Cox A, Gordon RG. Paleolatitudes determined from paleomagnetic data from vertical cores Reviews of Geophysics &Amp; Space Physics. 22: 47-72. DOI: 10.1029/Rg022I001P00047  0.364
1984 Engebretson DC, Cox A, Gordon RG. Relative motions between oceanic plates of the Pacific Basin Journal of Geophysical Research. 89: 10291-10310. DOI: 10.1029/Jb089Ib12P10291  0.599
1984 Jurdy DM, Gordon RG. Global plate motions relative to the hot spots 64 to 56 Ma Journal of Geophysical Research. 89: 9927-9936. DOI: 10.1029/Jb089Ib12P09927  0.562
1984 Schult FR, Gordon RG. Root mean square velocities of the continents with respect to the hot spots since the Early Jurassic Journal of Geophysical Research. 89: 1789-1800. DOI: 10.1029/Jb089Ib03P01789  0.57
1984 Gordon RG. A Paleocene North American paleomagnetic pole incorporating declination‐Only data Geophysical Research Letters. 11: 477-480. DOI: 10.1029/Gl011I005P00477  0.435
1984 Stein S, Gordon RG. Statistical tests of additional plate boundaries from plate motion inversions Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 69: 401-412. DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(84)90198-5  0.547
1983 Gordon RG. Late Cretaceous apparent polar wander of the Pacific Plate: Evidence for a rapid shift of the Pacific hotspots with respect to the spin axis Geophysical Research Letters. 10: 709-712. DOI: 10.1029/Gl010I008P00709  0.465
1982 Gordon RG. The late Maastrichtian palaeomagnetic pole of the Pacific Plate Geophysical Journal, Royal Astronomical Society. 70: 129-140. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1982.Tb06395.X  0.469
1982 Gordon RG. Paleomagnetic test of the Emperor Fracture Zone Hypothesis Geophysical Research Letters. 9: 1283-1286. DOI: 10.1029/Gl009I011P01283  0.379
1981 Gordon RG, Cape CD. Cenozoic latitudinal shift of the Hawaiian hotspot and its implications for true polar wander Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 55: 37-47. DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(81)90084-4  0.491
1980 Gordon RG, Cox A. Paleomagnetic test of the early Tertiary plate circuit between the Pacific basin plates and the Indian plate Journal of Geophysical Research. 85: 6534-6546. DOI: 10.1029/Jb085Ib11P06534  0.528
1980 Gordon RG, Cox A. Calculating palaeomagnetic poles for oceanic plates Geophysical Journal, Royal Astronomical Society. 63: 619-640.  0.386
1979 Gordon RG, McWilliams MO, Cox A. Pre‐tertiary velocities of the continents: A lower bound from paleomagnetic data Journal of Geophysical Research. 84: 5480-5486. DOI: 10.1029/Jb084Ib10P05480  0.524
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