Inner forearc response to subduction of the Panama Fracture Zone, southern Central America

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 82-95

  Morell, Kristin D ^a   Fisher, Donald M ^a   Gardner, Thomas W ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active faulting; Baru volcano; basin asymmetry; Brito Formation; CO NZ CA Triple Junction; Cocos Plate; Cocos Ridge; Costa Rica; crustal shortening; deformation; faults; Fila Coste a Thrust Belt; fold and thrust belts; forearc basins; Nazca Plate; Panama; Panama Block; Panama Fracture Zone; Panama Triple Junction; river morphology; Talamanca Range; Terraba Basin; Terraba Formation; thrust belt; thrust faults; triple junction migration; uplift

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTING; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOREARC BASINS; THRUST BELT; THRUST FAULTS; UPLIFT;

DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; COCOS PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOREARC BASIN; FRACTURE ZONE; NAZCA PLATE; SUBDUCTION; THRUST FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 36849020450     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.039     Document Type: Article

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