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Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America

Edited by P. Mann
1995
Special Paper No. 295, pp. 390.
Geological Society of America
Boulder, CO

Contents:

  Preface  
1. Late CretaceousEarly Tertiary Paleomagnetic Data and a Revised Tectonostratigraphic Subdivision of Costa Rica and Western Panama
G. Di Marco, P 0. Baumgartner, and E T Channell
1
2. Early Tertiary Arc Volcanics from Eastern Panama
R. C. Maury, M J. Defant, H. Bellon, J. Z. deBoer, R H. Stewart, and J Cotten
29
3. Cenozoic Magmatic Phases of the Costa Rican Island Arc (Cordillera de Talamanca)
J. Z de Boer, M. S. Drummond, M. J. Bordelon, M. J. Defant, H. Bellon and R. C. Maury
35
4. Geochemical Constraints on Subduction Processes in the Central American Volcanic Arc: Implications of Boron Geochemistry
W. P. Leeman and M. J. Carr
57
5. Tectonic Development of Panama, Costa Rica, and the Colombian Andes: Constraints from Global Positioning System Geodetic Studies and Gravity
J. M Kellogg and V. Vega
75
  Appendix: Gravity Anomaly Map of Southern Central America
T. C. Stallings, C.L.V. Aiken, and J. M. Kellogg
87
6. Structure and Tectonics of the PanamaNazca Plate Boundary
G. K Westbrook, M C. Hardy and R. P Heath
91
7. East Panama Deformed Belt: Structure, Age, and Neotectonic Significance
P. Mann and R. A. Koiarsky
111
8. Structure and Neotectonics of an ObliqueSubduction Margin, Southwestern Panama
R. A. Kolarsky and P. Mann
131
9. Stratigraphic Development of Southwestern Panama as Determined from Integration of Marine Seismic Data and Onshore Geology
R. A. Kolarsky, P. Mann, and S. Monechi
159
  Appendix 1: Summary of Paleontologic Sampling and Results to Accompany "Stratigraphic Development of Southwestern Panama as Determined from Integration of Marine Seismic Data and Onshore Geology"
Radim A. Kolarsky and Paul Mann
188
  Appendix 2: Radiolarian Biostratigraphic Analysis from the Azuero Peninsula, Panama
Donna Meyerhoff Hull and Emile A. Pessagno, Jr
188
  Appendix 3: Calcareous Nannofossil Assemblages and Biostratigraphy of Tonosi and Santiago Formations, Southwest Panama
Simonetta Monechi
192
10. Fracture Zone Collision Along the South Panama Margin
G. F. Moore and K. L. Sender
201
11. Sediment Dispersal and Accretionary Growth of the North Panama Deformed Belt
D. L. Reed and E. A. Silver
213
12. Variation in Structure. Style, and Driving Mechanism of Adjoining Segments of the North Panama Deformed Belt
E. A. Silver, J. Galewsky, and K.D. Mcintosh
225
13. Island Arc Response to Shallow Subduction of the Cocos Ridge, Costa Rica
R A. Kolarsky, P Mann, and W. Montero
235
14. Timing and Rates of Emergence of the Limon and Bocas del Toro Basins: Caribbean Effects of Cocos Ridge Subduction?
L. S. Collins, A. Q. Coates, J.B.C. Jackson, and J. A. Obando
263
15. Morphotectonics of the Pactfic Convergent Margin of Costa Rica
R. von Huene, J. Bialas, E. Flueh, R. Cropp, T. Csernok, E. Fabel, J. Hoffmann, K. Emeis, P. Holler, G. Jeschke, C. Leandro, M Perez Femandez, J. Chavarria S., A. Florez H., D. Escobedo Z, R. Leon, and O. Bamos L.
291
16. Correlation Between the Age of the Subduchng Cocos Plate and the Geometry of the WadatiBenioff Zone Under Nicaragua and Costa Rica
M. Protti, F. Guendel, and K. McNally
309
17. Tectonic Implications of the Seismic Ruptures Associated with the 1983 and 1991 Costa Rica Earthquakes
F. Tajima and M. Kikuchi
327
  Selected Publications of Richard Weyl on the Geology of Central America 341
  Index 343
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