Creation of the Cocos and Nazca plates by fission of the Farallon plate

2005/06/28 by Peter Lonsdale · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Convergent boundary #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #North American Plate #Oceanic crust #Pacific Plate #Paleontology #Plate tectonics #Seafloor spreading #Seismology #Slab window #Subduction #Tectonics #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2005.05.011

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Citations

• Segmentation and disruption of the East Pacific Rise in the mouth of the Gulf of California
• Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts
• Structure and tectonics of the Panama-Nazca plate boundary

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• Active deformation in Ecuador enlightened by a new waveform-based catalog of earthquake focal mechanisms
• Farallon plate [wikipedia]