The Caribbean and Farallon Plates Connected: Constraints From Stratigraphy and Paleomagnetism of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Rapid vertical motions and formation of volcanic arc gaps: Plateau collision recorded in the forearc geological evolution (Costa Rica margin)

(2018) Goran Andjić et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Paleomagnetic constraints on the kinematic relationship between the Guerrero terrane (Mexico) and North America since Early Cretaceous time

(2018) Lydian M. Boschman et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Reconstructing Plate Boundaries in the Jurassic Neo-Tethys From the East and West Vardar Ophiolites (Greece and Serbia)

(2018) Marco Maffione et al.   TECTONICS

Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

(2018) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

On the relative motions of long-lived Pacific mantle plumes

(2018) Kevin Konrad et al.   Nature Communications

The Dynamic History of 220 Million Years of Subduction Below Mexico: A Correlation Between Slab Geometry and Overriding Plate Deformation Based on Geology, Paleomagnetism, and Seismic Tomography

(2018) Lydian M. Boschman et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review

(2017) Robert J. Stern et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The Guanacaste Volcanic Arc Sliver of Northwestern Costa Rica

(2017) Walter Montero et al.   Scientific Reports

Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup

(2016) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Paleomagnetism.org: An online multi-platform open source environment for paleomagnetic data analysis

(2016) Mathijs R. Koymans et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

The Late Cretaceous to recent tectonic history of the Pacific Ocean basin

(2016) Nicky M. Wright et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Automated paleomagnetic and rock magnetic data acquisition with an in-line horizontal “2G” system

(2016) Tom A. T. Mullender et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Thermo-mechanical modeling of the obduction process based on the Oman Ophiolite case

(2016) Thibault Duretz et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Campanian rudists (Hippuritida, Bivalvia) from Costa Rica (Central America)

(2016) Jose Maria Pons et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Origin of plagiogranites in oceanic complexes: A case study of the Nicoya and Santa Elena terranes, Costa Rica

(2016) Scott A. Whattam et al.   LITHOS

Record of massive upwellings from the Pacific large low shear velocity province

(2016) Pilar Madrigal et al.   Nature Communications

On the enigmatic birth of the Pacific Plate within the Panthalassa Ocean

(2016) L. M. Boschman et al.   Science Advances

Dynamics of intraoceanic subduction initiation: 1. Oceanic detachment fault inversion and the formation of supra-subduction zone ophiolites

(2015) Marco Maffione et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Late Cretaceous plume-induced subduction initiation along the southern margin of the Caribbean and NW South America: The first documented example with implications for the onset of plate tectonics

(2015) Scott A. Whattam et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Metamorphic history of riebeckite- and aegirine-augite-bearing high-pressure–low-temperature blocks within the Siuna Serpentinite Mélange, northeastern Nicaragua

(2015) Kennet E. Flores et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

A melt-focusing zone in the lithospheric mantle preserved in the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica

(2015) Pilar Madrigal et al.   LITHOS

Compositional diversity in peridotites as result of a multi-process history: The Pacific-derived Santa Elena ophiolite, northwest Costa Rica

(2015) Javier Escuder-Viruete et al.   LITHOS

Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

(2015) T. V. Gerya et al.   NATURE

Kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean region since the Early Jurassic

(2014) Lydian M. Boschman et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Erratum: Geomagnetic secular variation and the statistics of palaeomagnetic directions

(2014) Martijn H.L. Deenen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Structural evolution and deformation kinematics of a subduction-related serpentinite-matrix mélange, Santa Elena peninsula, northwest Costa Rica

(2014) Javier Escuder-Viruete et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America

(2013) Karin Sigloch et al.   NATURE

Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics

(2012) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Absolute plate motions in a reference frame defined by moving hot spots in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans

(2012) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Intra-Panthalassa Ocean subduction zones revealed by fossil arcs and mantle structure

(2012) D. G. van der Meer et al.   Nature Geoscience

To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites

(2012) R.J. Stern et al.   Lithosphere

Segmentation of the Farallon slab

(2011) Lijun Liu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Dynamics of subduction initiation with different evolutionary pathways

(2011) Wei Leng et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Geomagnetic secular variation and the statistics of palaeomagnetic directions

(2011) Martijn H. L. Deenen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Late Cretaceous arc development on the SW margin of the Caribbean Plate: Insights from the Golfito, Costa Rica, and Azuero, Panama, complexes

(2010) David M. Buchs et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

Observations of geometry and ages constrain relative motion of Hawaii and Louisville plumes

(2009) Paul Wessel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Galapagos-OIB signature in southern Central America: Mantle refertilization by arc-hot spot interaction

(2009) Esteban Gazel et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Cenozoic tectonics of the Nicaraguan depression, Nicaragua, and Median Trough, El Salvador, based on seismic-reflection profiling and remote-sensing data

(2009) Justin Funk et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The Costa Rican Jurassic to Miocene oceanic complexes: Origin, tectonics and relations

(2009) Percy Denyer et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

(2009) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Intra-arc extension in Central America: Links between plate motions, tectonics, volcanism, and geochemistry

(2008) J. Phipps Morgan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Recent investigations of the 0-5 Ma geomagnetic field recorded by lava flows

(2008) C. L. Johnson et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Pacific absolute plate motion since 145 Ma: An assessment of the fixed hot spot hypothesis

(2008) Paul Wessel et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Geomagnetic secular variation in the Cretaceous Normal Superchron and in the Jurassic

(2008) Andrew J. Biggin et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Reconstructing Farallon Plate Subduction Beneath North America Back to the Late Cretaceous

(2008) L. Liu et al.   SCIENCE