Revised tectonic boundaries in the Cocos Plate off Costa Rica: Implications for the segmentation of the convergent margin and for plate tectonic models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B9, 2001, Pages 19207-19220

  Barckhausen, Udo ^a   Ranero, Cesar R ^b   Von Huene, R ^b,c   Cande, Steven C ^d   Roeser, Hans A ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCOS PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; SEGMENTATION; SPREADING CENTER; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

COCOS RIDGE; COSTA RICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034771535     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jb000238     Document Type: Article

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