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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.
data(hotspots)
A data frame with 36 observations on the following 6 variables.
IDnamedistanceageerrorsource
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.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/haw_formation.html
data(hotspots) plot(age ~ distance, data=hotspots) abline(lm(age ~ distance, data=hotspots))