hotspots

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.

datasets

Functions and data sets used in examples and exercises in the
text Maindonald, J.H. and Braun, W.J. (2003, 2007, 2010) "Data
Analysis and Graphics Using R", and in an upcoming Maindonald,
Braun, and Andrews text that builds on this earlier text.

W.J. Braun

DAAG

Data Analysis and Graphics Data and Functions

hotspots function

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 6 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>ID</code></dt>
<dd>Volcano identifier</dd> <dt><code>name</code></dt>
<dd>Name</dd> <dt><code>distance</code></dt>
<dd>Distance in kilometers</dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>K-Ar age in millions of years</dd> <dt><code>error</code></dt>
<dd>Standard error of estimate?</dd> <dt><code>source</code></dt>
<dd>Data source; see information on web site below.</dd> 
</dl>

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Hawaian island chain hotspot Potassium-Argon ages — hotspots

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 6 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>ID</code></dt>
<dd>Volcano identifier</dd>

 <dt><code>name</code></dt>
<dd>Name</dd>

 <dt><code>distance</code></dt>
<dd>Distance in kilometers</dd>

 <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>K-Ar age in millions of years</dd>

 <dt><code>error</code></dt>
<dd>Standard error of estimate?</dd>

 <dt><code>source</code></dt>
<dd>Data source; see information on web site below.</dd>

 
</dl>

hotspots: Hawaian island chain hotspot Potassium-Argon ages

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