This month's column, the first of a three-part series, is titled "Regional Plate Kinematics: Arm Waving, or Underutilized Exploration Tool?"

By JAMES PINDELL
LORCAN KENNAN
and STEPHEN BARRETT

The Geophysical Corner is a regular column in the EXPLORER, produced cooperatively by the AAPG Geophysical Integration and SEG Interpretation committees, and edited by M. Ray Thomasson.

Kinematic Analysis:
The Next Step

Figure 1.

Figure 2. Relationships between pole of rotation, great circles, ridge segments, small circles, transforms and fracture zones in a two-plate system.