Isla del coco, on cocos plate, converges with Isla de San Andrés, on the Caribbean plate, at 78mm/yr

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 60, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-41

  Protti, Marino ^a   González, Víctor ^a   Freymueller, Jeffrey ^b   Doelger, Sarah ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean Plate; Cocos Plate; Continuous GPS (CGPS); GPS; Isla del Coco; Plate motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877936487     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: 22152075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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