Intra-oceanic subduction in North Pacific and its implication to the sudden change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 Ma

Jiashun Hu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Johann Rudi, ICES, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Georg Stadler, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States and Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia