Some recent articles about Central American GeologyŃ

for use by GE 5940 students, Fall semester 2006

 

 

Part 1:  Long Articles

 

2006 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volume 157, Issues 1-3 , Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica - Magma Genesis and Volcanological Processes

 

Chemical evolution of thermal springs at Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica: Effect of volcanic activity, precipitation, seismic activity, and Earth tides „  Pages 166-181 D.L. L—pez, J. Bundschuh, G.J. Soto, J.F. Fern‡ndez and G.E. Alvarado

 

The 1968 andesitic lateral blast eruption at Arenal volcano, Costa Rica „  Pages 9-33 Guillermo E. Alvarado, Gerardo J. Soto, Hans-Ulrich Schmincke, Louise L. Bolge and Mari Sumita

 

Complex behavior and source model of the tremor at Arenal volcano, Costa Rica Pages 49-59 Philippe Lesage, Mauricio M. Mora, Guillermo E. Alvarado, Javier Pacheco and Jean-Philippe MŽtaxian

 

The magma budget of Volc‡n Arenal, Costa Rica from 1980 to 2004 Pages 60-74 G. Wadge, D. Oramas Dorta and P.D. Cole

 

The volatile content of magmas from Arenal volcano, Costa Rica Pages 94-120 Jennifer A. Wade, Terry Plank, William G. Melson, Gerardo J. Soto and Erik H. Hauri

 

Geochemical stratigraphy and magmatic evolution at Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica Pages 34-48 Louise L. Bolge, Michael J. Carr, Mark D. Feigenson and Guillermo E. Alvarado

 

Eruptive history of Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica, 7 ka to present

Pages 254-269 Gerardo J. Soto and Guillermo E. Alvarado

 

 

2006 Volcanic Hazards in Central America

edited by William I. Rose, Greg Bluth, Michael J. Carr, John W Ewert, Lina C. Patino, and James W Vallance  GSA SPE412: ISBN(10) 0-8137-2412-0; ISBN(13) 978-0-8137-2412-6

 

The chemistry of spring waters and fumarolic gases encircling Santa Maria volcano, Guatemala: insights into the hydrothermal system below an active arc volcano, by James A Walker, Sharon Templeton and B I Cameron

 

Geological Evolution of the Tacana Volcanic Complex, Mexico-Guatemala by A Garcia Palomo, J L Macias, J L Arce,J C Mora, S Hughes, R Saucedo, J M Espindola, R Escobar and P Layer

 

A.D. 1835 Eruption of Volc‡n CosigŸina, Nicaragua:  A Guide for Assessing Hazards By William Scott, Cynthia Gardner, Antonio Alvarez, and Graziella Devoli

 

The origin of the modern Chiapanecan volcanic arc in southern Mexico inferred from thermal models  By Vlad C Manea and Marina Manea

 

 

 

2004 Natural Hazards in El Salvador

edited by William I. Rose, Julian J. Bommer, Dina L. L—pez, Michael J. Carr, and Jon J. Major, 2004 GSA SPE375, 480 p. plus index, ISBN 0-8137-2375-2

 

S G Evans and A L Bent, The Las Colinas Landslide, Santa Tecla:  A highly destructive flowslide triggered by the January 13, 2001 El Salvador Earthquake, pp 25-37.

 

R A White JP Liggoria and I L Cifuentes, Seismic history of the Middle America subduction zone along El Salvador, Guatemala and Chiapas, pp 379-396.

 

Payson Sheets, Apocalypse then: Social Science approaches to volcanism, people and cultures in the Zapotitan valley, El Salvador, pp109-120.

 

J W Dewey, R A White and D A Hernandez, Seismicity and tectonics of El Salvador, pp 363-378.

 

2006 Central America: Geology, Resources and Hazards 
Edited by: Jochen Bundschuh, Guillermo E. Alvarado

 

*MICHAEL J. CARR, LINA C. PATINO AND MARK D. FEIGENSON

Petrology and geochemistry of lavas, Ch 22

 

*PAUL MANN, ROBERT D. ROGERS AND LISA GAHAGAN

Overview of plate tectonic history and its unresolved tectonic problems, Ch 8

 

 

Miscellaneous larger articles:

 

James A. Walker Kurt Roggensack Lina C. Patino Barry I. Cameron Otoniel Matõ«as The water and trace element contents of melt inclusions

across an active subduction zone Contrib Mineral Petrol (2003) 146: 62Š77

 

 

Alison M. Shaw; , David R. Hilton, Tobias P. Fischer, James A. Walker , Guillermo E. Alvarado , 2003. Contrasting He-C relationships in Nicaragua and Costa Rica: insights into C cycling through subduction zones

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 214 (2003) 499-513

 

*Katherine A. Kelley,Terry Plank,Timothy L. Grove, Edward M. Stolper,

Sally Newman,and Erik Hauri Mantle melting as a function of water content beneath back-arc basins JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 111, XXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2005JB003732, 2006

 

*Michael J. Carr, Ian Saginor Guillermo E. Alvarado Louise L. Bolge*, Fara N. Lindsay, Brent Turrin, Mark D. Feigenson and Carl C. Swisher III Element Fluxes from the Volcanic Front of Nicaragua and Costa Rica G3 in press

 

*M. J. Carr and M. D. Feigenson L. C. Patino J. A. Walker Volcanism and Geochemistry in Central America: Progress and Problems  AGU

 

T.A. Mather , D.M. Pyle V.I. Tsanev, A.J.S. McGonigle

C. Oppenheimer, A.G. Allen  A reassessment of current volcanic emissions from the Central American arc with specific examples from Nicaragua Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 149 (2006) 297Š 311

 

*J.B. Johnson, R.C. Aster  Relative partitioning of acoustic and seismic energy

during Strombolian eruptions  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 148 (2005) 334 Š 354

 

 

Part 2: Short articles:

 

Robert D. Rogers Hrafnkell Ka«rason Robert D. van der Hilst, 2002, Epeirogenic uplift above a detached slab in northern Central America Geology; November 2002; v. 30; no. 11; p. 1031Š1034

 

Geoffrey A. Abers and Terry Plank The wet Nicaraguan slab

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 30, NO. 2, 1098

 

Terry Plank Vaughn Balzer Michael Carr

Nicaraguan volcanoes record paleoceanographic changes accompanying closure of the Panama gateway Geology; December 2002; v. 30; no. 12; p. 1087Š1090

 

Peter C. La Femina, T.H. Dixon, W. Strauch Bookshelf faulting in Nicaragua

Geology; August 2002; v. 30; no. 8; p. 751Š754

 

Kaj Hoernle *Paul van den Bogaard Reinhard Werner Britta Lissinna Folkmar Hauff Guillermo Alvarado  Dieter Garbe-Scho¬nberg

Missing history (16Š71 Ma) of the Gala«pagos hotspot: Implications for the tectonic and biological evolution of the Americas Geology; September 2002; v. 30; no. 9; p. 795Š798;

 

John C. Weber* Timothy H. Dixon Charles DeMets William B. Ambeh* Pamela Jansma* Glen Mattioli  Jarir Saleh* Giovanni Sella Roger Bilham Omar Pe«rez GPS estimate of relative motion between the Caribbean and South American plates, and geologic implications for Trinidad and Venezuela

Geology; January 2001; v. 29; no. 1; p. 75Š78;

 

M A Garces. M T Hagerty and SY Schwartz, Magma acoustics and time-varying melt properties at Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica, G R L 25 (13) 2293-2296.

 

Jose« J. Martõ«nez-Dõ«az Jose« A. A« lvarez-Go«mez Bele«n Benito  Douglas Herna«ndez

Triggering of destructive earthquakes in El Salvador Geology; January 2004; v. 32; no. 1; p. 65Š68;

 

C. R. Ranero & R. von Huene Subduction erosion along the Middle America convergent margin NATURE |VOL 404 | 13 APRIL 2000

 

Thomas Gardner* Jeffrey Marshall Dorothy Merritts Bhavani Bee Reed Burgette Emily Burton Jennifer Cooke Natalie Kehrwald Marino Protti  Donald Fisher Peter Sak

Holocene forearc block rotation in response to seamount subduction, southeastern Penõ«nsula de Nicoya, Costa Rica Geology; February 2001; v. 29; no. 2; p. 151Š154;

 

Lars H. Ru¬pke Jason Phipps Morgan Matthias Hort James A.D. Connolly

Are the regional variations in Central American arc lavas due to differing basaltic versus peridotitic slab sources of fluids? Geology; November 2002; v. 30; no. 11; p. 1035Š1038;

 

Jeffrey S. Marshall Bruce D. Idleman Thomas W. Gardner Donald M. Fisher Landscape evolution within a retreating volcanic arc, Costa Rica, Central America Geology; May 2003; v. 31; no. 5; p. 419Š422

 

Giacomo Corti Eugenio Carminati Francesco Mazzarini Marvyn Oziel Garcia

Active strike-slip faulting in El Salvador, Central America Geology; December 2005; v. 33; no. 12

 

H. Lyon-Caen E. Barrier, C. Lasserre, A. Franco, I. Arzu, L. Chiquin, M. Chiquin, T. Duquesnoy, O. Flores, O. Galicia, J. Luna, E. Molina, O. Porras, J. Requena, V. Robles, J. Romero, R. Wolf, Kinematics of the North America-Caribbean-Cocos plates in Central America from new GPS measurements across the Polochic-Motagua fault system

 

Charles DeMets Reply: Central American forearc slip revisited

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 29, NO. 0, 10.1029/2002GL015384, 2002

 

Charles DeMets A new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion: Implications for slip along the Central American volcanic arc

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 0, NO. 0, PAGES 0-0, M 0, 2001

 

Martin Meschede and Udo Barckhausen PLATE TECTONIC EVOLUTION

OF THE COCOS-NAZCA SPREADING CENTER  In Silver, E.A., Kimura, G., and Shipley, T.H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results Volume 170

 

*Jeffrey B. Johnson, Mario C. Ruiz, Jonathan M. Lees, and Patricio Ramon Poor scaling between elastic energy release and eruption intensity at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L15304, doi:10.1029/2005GL022847, 2005