DAAGxtras (version 0.7-6)

hotspots: Hawaian island chain hotspot Potassium-Argon ages

Description

K-Ar Ages (millions of years) and distances (km) from Kilauea along the trend of the chain of Hawaian volcanic islands and other seamounts that are believed to have been created by a moving "hot spot". The age of Kilauea is given as 0-0.4 Ma.

Usage

data(hotspots)

source

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/haw_formation.html

Details

For details of the way that errors werre calculated, refer to the original papers. See also the comments under hotspots2006. In general, errors do not account for geological uncertainty.

Examples

data(hotspots)
plot(age ~ distance, data=hotspots)
abline(lm(age ~ distance, data=hotspots))