© Diagram Moores & Twiss Tectonics
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Table and Map of Plate Velocities (Hotspot reference frame)

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after: McKenzie, D. P., & Morgan, W. J. (1969). Evolution of triple junctions. Nature, 224, 125–133 and Moores, E.M., and Twiss, R.J., 1995, Tectonics: New York, Freeman.

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All possible triple junction topologies
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