Continental margin response to multiple arc-continent collisions: The northern Andes-Caribbean margin
An integration of diverse strain markers into a palinspastic reconstruction of the northern
Andes provides a first-order quantitative approximation to the response of a complex margin …
Andes provides a first-order quantitative approximation to the response of a complex margin …
Late Cretaceous plume-induced subduction initiation along the southern margin of the Caribbean and NW South America: The first documented example with …
SA Whattam, RJ Stern - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Plate tectonics is the governing theory that unifies the Earth Sciences and is unique to Earth.
The sinking of lithosphere in subduction zones drives plate tectonics but exactly how and …
The sinking of lithosphere in subduction zones drives plate tectonics but exactly how and …
Middle Miocene closure of the Central American seaway
Uranium-lead geochronology in detrital zircons and provenance analyses in eight boreholes
and two surface stratigraphic sections in the northern Andes provide insight into the time of …
and two surface stratigraphic sections in the northern Andes provide insight into the time of …
The Paleogene arcs of the northern Andes of Colombia and Panama: Insights on plate kinematic implications from new and existing geochemical, geochronological …
Abstract The northern Andes of Colombia comprise two non-cogenetic Paleogene arcs
formed in contrasting geodynamic settings including continental and oceanic domains. New …
formed in contrasting geodynamic settings including continental and oceanic domains. New …
Transition from the Farallon Plate subduction to the collision between South and Central America: Geological evolution of the Panama Isthmus
F Barat, BM de Lépinay, M Sosson, C Müller… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents new geological constraints on the collision of southern Central America
with South America, and the resulting deformational episodes that have affected the …
with South America, and the resulting deformational episodes that have affected the …
Early central American forearc follows the subduction initiation rule
The “subduction initiation rule”(SIR)(Whattam and Stern, 2011) advocates that proto-arc and
forearc complexes preserved in ophiolites and forearcs follow a predictable chemotemporal …
forearc complexes preserved in ophiolites and forearcs follow a predictable chemotemporal …
Exhumation of the Panama basement complex and basins: Implications for the closure of the Central American seaway
The emergence of the Central American isthmus occurred episodically from Eocene to
Pliocene time and was caused by a series of tectonic and volcanic processes. Results from …
Pliocene time and was caused by a series of tectonic and volcanic processes. Results from …
Geochemistry of the mantle source and magma feeding system beneath Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica
A Di Piazza, AL Rizzo, F Barberi, ML Carapezza… - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
Turrialba volcano lies in the southern sector of the Central American Volcanic Front (CAVF)
in Costa Rica. The geochemistry of major and trace elements, and Sr and Nd isotopes of a …
in Costa Rica. The geochemistry of major and trace elements, and Sr and Nd isotopes of a …
Relict basin closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: New insights from geochronological and geochemical analysis of the Yangjiagou Formation, NE China
S Sun, Z Song, Z Han, Z Ji, R Qin, J Li, W Zhong - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yangjiagou Formation is distributed along the Changchun-Yanji suture zone in
NE China and records the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. The age of the Yangjiagou …
NE China and records the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. The age of the Yangjiagou …
Adakite-like signature of porphyry granitoid stocks in the Meiduk and Parkam porphyry copper deposits, NE of Shahr-e-Babak, Kerman, Iran: Constrains on …
Abstract The Middle Miocene porphyry granitoid stocks of Meiduk and Parkam porphyry
copper deposits are intruded in the north-western part of the Dehaj-Sarduiyeh volcano …
copper deposits are intruded in the north-western part of the Dehaj-Sarduiyeh volcano …