Some recent articles about Central American GeologyŃ
for use by GE 5940 students, Fall semester 2006
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. Lpez, J. Bundschuh, G.J. Soto, J.F. Fernndez 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 Mtaxian
The magma
budget of Volcn 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 Volcn Cosigina, 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
edited
by William I. Rose, Julian J. Bommer, Dina L. Lpez, 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
*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