Fast rates of subduction erosion along the Costa Rica Pacific margin: Implications for nonsteady rates of crustal recycling at subduction zones

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Vannucchi, Paola ^a   Ranero, César R ^b,c   Galeotti, Simone ^d   Straub, Susanne M ^b   Scholl, David W ^e,f   McDougall Ried, Kristin ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocos Ridge; Convergent margins; Middle America Trench; Tectonic erosion

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL RECYCLING; EROSION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

COSTA RICAN MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1342320656     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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