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Overview of the tectonic history of northern Central America
Paul Mann
Overview of the tectonic history of northern Central America (in Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean Plate boundary in northern Central America, Paul Mann (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (2007) 428: 1-19
Overview of the tectonic history of northern Central America (in Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean Plate boundary in northern Central America, Paul Mann (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (2007) 428: 1-19
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Atlantic Ocean
- Caribbean Plate
- Caribbean region
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Trough
- Cenozoic
- Central America
- Chortis Block
- Cocos Plate
- Cocos Ridge
- Cretaceous
- crust
- East Pacific
- faults
- Mesozoic
- Miocene
- movement
- Nazca Plate
- Neogene
- North Atlantic
- oceanic crust
- Pacific Ocean
- paleoenvironment
- paleogeography
- plate boundaries
- plate tectonics
- reconstruction
- strike-slip faults
- systems
- tectonics
- terranes
- Tertiary
- Nicaraguan Depression
Latitude & Longitude
ISSN: 0072-1077
EISSN: 2331-219X
Coden: GSAPAZ
Serial Title: Special Paper - Geological Society of America
Serial Volume: 428
Title: Overview of the tectonic history of northern Central America
Title: Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean Plate boundary in northern Central America
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics,
Austin, TX,
United States
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Geophysics,
Austin, TX,
United States
Pages: 1-19
Published: 2007
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
ISBN: 978-0-8137-2428-7
References: 79
Accession Number: 2008-044994
Categories: Solid-earth geophysicsStructural geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: sketch maps
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Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 200813
