The Rivera-Cocos plate boundary: Implications for Rivera-Cocos relative motion and plate fragmentation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 334, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-28

  Bandy, W L ^a,b   Hilde, T W C ^a   Yan, C Y ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION;

COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; DISCRETE DEFORMATION; EAST PACIFIC RISE; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCHES; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; RIDGE PROPAGATION; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

VECTORS;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; COCOS PLATE; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; LITHIC FRAGMENT; METAMORPHISM; PLATE MOTION; TRENCH;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; JALISCO BLOCK; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 0005717040     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2334-5.1     Document Type: Article

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