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Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Northern Central America
Editor(s)
Geological Society of America

Copyright:
Geological Society of America
ISBN print:
9780813724287
Publication date:
January 01, 2007
Book Chapter
Overview of the tectonic history of northern Central America Available to Purchase
Author(s)
Paul Mann
Paul Mann
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Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196 (ROC), 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, Texas 78758-4445, USA
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Published:January 01, 2007
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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
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