Transtensional deformation of the western Caribbean-North America plate boundary zone

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 428, Issue , 2007, Pages 37-64

  Rogers, Robert D ^a,b   Mann, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean plate; Geomorphology; Honduran borderlands; Oblique divergence

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

HONDURAN BORDERLANDS; OBLIQUE DIVERGENCE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING DATA; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; TRANSTENSIONAL DEFORMATION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CARIBBEAN PLATE; DEFORMATION; DIVERGENCE; EARTHQUAKE; EXPLORATION; FAULT; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IGNIMBRITE; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMIC DATA; SUBMARINE; UPLIFT;

CHIQUIMULA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; HONDURAS; JOCOTAN;

EID: 67449091327     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2428(03)     Document Type: Article

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