Basin Tectonics of Southern Central America

Costa Rica tectonic setting
Tectonic setting of the Central American Island Arc and Cocos Ridge
(from Kolarsky, 1992)

 

Bibliographical references:

1.- Kolarsky, Radim Antonin. (1992). Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation in Southern Central America: Costa Rica and Panama. (R. T. Buffler) (Text, plates separate volumes), Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin

2.- Mann and Kolarsky, 1995, East Panama Deformed Belt: Age, Structure and Neotectonic Significance, in Mann, ed., Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 295.

3.- Kolarsky and Mann, 1995, Structure and Neotectonics of an Oblique-Subduction Margin, Southwestern Panama, in Mann, ed., Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 295.

4.- Kolarsky, Mann and Monechi, 1995, Stratigraphic Development of Southwestern Panama as Determined from Integration of Marine Seismic Data and Onshore Geology, in Mann, ed., Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 295.

5.- Kolarsky, Mann and Montero, 1995, Island Arc Subduction response to Shallow Subduction of the Cocos Ridge, Costa Rica, in Mann, ed., Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 295.