Cal Poly Pomona University
Geological Sciences Department
Costa Rica Field Module – GSC 491L/499
Dr. Jeff
Marshall & Dr. Jon Nourse
Costa Rica Pacific Margin Geomorphology and Tectonics
Spring 2008
Overview: Costa Rica Geomorphology & Tectonics
Marshall, J.S., 2007, Geomorphology and Physiographic
Provinces of Central America: in
Bundschuh, J. and Alvarado, G., eds., Central America: Geology, Resources,
and Hazards, Taylor and Francis,
London, p 75-122.
Marshall, J.S., Gardner, T.W., Fisher, D.M., Sak,
P.B., and Protti, M., 2001, Quaternary neotectonics of the Costa Rican coastal
fore arc: Field Guide for National Science Foundation MARGINS Program Workshop
on Central American Tectonics, Heredia, Costa Rica, July 2001, 62 p.
Central Costa Rica: Quaternary Volcanism &
Tectonics
Marshall, J.S., Idleman, B.D., Gardner, T.W., and
Fisher, D.M., 2003, Landscape evolution within a retreating volcanic arc, Costa
Rica, Central America: Geology, v. 31, p. 419-422.
Vogel, T.A., Patino, L.C., Alvarado, G.E., and Gans,
P.B., 2004, Silicic ignimbrites within the Costa Rican volcanic front: Evidence
for the formation of continental crust: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.
226, p. 149– 159.
Pérez, W., Alvarado, G.E., and Gans,
P.B., 2006, The 322 ka Tiribí Tuff: Stratigraphy, geochronology, and mechanisms
of deposition of the largest and most recent ignimbrite in the Valle Central,
Costa Rica: Bulletin of Volcanology, doi:10.1007/s004450060053x.
Rymer, H., Locke, C.A., Brenes, J., and
Williams-Jones, G., 2005, Magma plumbing processes for persistent activity at
Poás volcano, Costa Rica: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 32, L08307,
doi:10.1029/2004GL022284.
Borgia, A., Burr, J., Montero, W., Morales, L.D., and
Alvarado, G.E., 1990, Fault propagation folds induced by gravitational failure
and slumping of the central Costa Rica volcanic range: Implications for large
terrestrial and Martian volcanic edifices: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.
95, p. 14,357-14,382.
Marshall, J.S., Fisher, D.M., and Gardner, T.W., 2000,
Central Costa Rica deformed belt: Kinematics of diffuse faulting across the
western Panama block: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 468-492.
Nicoya Peninsula: Subduction Zone Structure
von Huene, R., Ranero, C., Weinrebe, W., and Hinz, K.,
2000, Quaternary convergent margin tectonics of Costa Rica: Segmentation of the
Cocos Plate and Central American volcanism: Tectonics, v.19, p. 314-334.
Barckhausen, U., Ranero, C.R., von Huene, R., Cande,
S.C., and Roeser, H.A., 2001, Revised tectonic boundaries in the Cocos Plate
off Costa Rica: Implications for the segmentation of the convergent margin and
for plate tectonic models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p.
19,207–19,220.
Fisher, A.T., Stein, C.A., Harris, R.N., Wang, K.,
Silver, E.A., Pfender, M., Hutnak, M., Cherkaoui, A., Bodzin, R. and Villinger,
H., 2003, Abrupt thermal transition reveals hydrothermal boundary and role of
seamounts within the Cocos Plate: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 30, 1550,
doi:10.1029/2002GL016766.
Spinelli, G.A. and Saffer, D., 2004, Along-strike
variations in underthrust sediment dewatering on the Nicoya margin, Costa Rica
related to the updip limit of seismicity: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31,
4613, doi:10.1029/2003GL018863.
Nicoya Peninsula: Margin Wedge Accretion vs.
Subduction Erosion
Shipley, T.H., McIntosh, K.D., Silver, E.A. and
Stoffa, P.L., 1992, Three-dimensional seismic imaging of the Costa Rica
accretionary prism: Structural diversity in a small volume of the lower slope:
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97, p. 4439–4459.
Ranero,
C. and von Huene, R., 2000, Subduction erosion along the Middle America
convergent margin: Nature, v. 404, p. 748–752.
Vannucchi, P., Scholl, D.W., Meschede, M., and
McDougall-Reid, K., 2001, Tectonic erosion and consequent collapse of the
Pacific margin of Costa Rica: Combined implications from ODP Leg 170, seismic
offshore data, and regional geology of the Nicoya Peninsula: Tectonics, v. 20,
p. 649–668.
von Huene, R., Ranero, C.R., and Vannucchi, P., 2004,
A generic model of subduction erosion, Geology, v. 32, doi:10.1130/G20563.1, p.
913–916.
Ranero, C.R.,
Grevemeyer, I., Sahling, H., Barckhausen, U., Hensen, C., Wallmann, K.,
Weinrebe, W., Vannucchi, P., von Huene, R., and McIntosh, K., in press (2008), Hydrogeological
system of erosional convergent margins and its influence on tectonics and
interplate seismogenesis: Nature, doi:10.1029/2007GC001679.
Nicoya Peninsula: Forearc Geology &
Stratigraphy
Lundberg, N., 1982, Evolution of the slope landward of
the Middle America Trench, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, in Legget, J. K., ed., Trench-forearc geology: Geological
Society of London Special Publication 10, p. 131-147.
Lundberg,
N., 1983, Development of forearcs of intraoceanic subduction zones: Tectonics,
v. 2, p. 51-61.
Lundberg, N., 1991, Detrital record of the early
Central American magmatic arc: Petrography of intraoceanic forearc sandstones,
Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.103, p.
905-915.
Calvo, C., 2003, Provenance of plutonic detritus in
cover sandstones of Nicoya Complex, Costa Rica: Cretaceous unroofing history of
a Mesozoic ophiolite sequence: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115,
p. 832-844.
Denyer, P., and Baumgartner, P.O., 2006, Emplacement
of Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous radiolarites of the Nicoya Complex (Costa Rica):
Geologica Acta, v. 4, p. 203-218.
Denyer, P., Baumgartner, P.O., and Gazel, E., 2006,
Characterization and tectonic implications of Mesozoic-Cenozoic oceanic
assemblages of Costa Rica and Western Panama: Geologica Acta, v. 4, p. 219-235.
Nicoya Peninsula: Forearc Geomorphology &
Neotectonics
Gardner, T.W., Verdonck, D., Pinter, N.M.,
Slingerland, R., Furlong, K.P., Bullard, T.F., and Wells, S.G., 1992,
Quaternary uplift astride the aseismic Cocos Ridge, Pacific coast, Costa Rica:
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, p. 219-232.
Fisher, D.M., Gardner, T.W., Marshall, J.S., Sak,
P.B., and Protti, M., 1998, Effect of subducting sea-floor roughness on
fore-arc kinematics, Pacific coast, Costa Rica: Geology, v. 26, p. 467-470.
Hare, P.W., and Gardner, T.W., 1985, Geomorphic
indicators of vertical neotectonism along converging plate margins, Nicoya
Peninsula, Costa Rica, in Morisawa,
M., and Hack, J.T., eds., Tectonic geomorphology: Proceedings of the 15th
Geomorphology Symposia Series, Binghamton, p. 76-104.
Marshall, J.S., and Anderson, R.S., 1995, Quaternary
uplift and seismic cycle deformation, Península de Nicoya, Costa Rica:
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 463-473.
Gardner, T.W., Marshall, J.S., Merritts, D.J., Protti,
M., Bee, B., Burgette, R., Burton, E., Cooke, J., Kehrwald, N., Fisher, D., and
Sak, P., 2001, Holocene fore arc block rotation in response to seamount subduction,
southeastern Península de Nicoya, Costa Rica: Geology, v. 29, p. 151-154.
Marshall, J.S., LaFromboise, E.J., Gardner, T.W., and
Protti, M., 2007, Segmented forearc deformation along the Nicoya Peninsula
seismic gap, Costa Rica: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 88, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abs T53A-1121.
Nicoya Peninsula: Subduction Earthquakes &
Seismogenic Zone Structure
Protti, M., Gonzalez, V., Schwartz, S.,
Dixon, T., Kato, T., Kaneda, Y., Simila, G., Sampson, D., 2007, Seismic and
Geodetic Monitoring of the Nicoya, Costa Rica, Seismic Gap: Eos Transactions
American Geophysical Union, v. 88, Abstract U54B-06.
AU:
Ramirez, C., LaFromboise, E., Simila, G.,
McNally, K., Quintero, R., 2007, Seismic strong motion array project (SSMAP) to
record future large earthquakes in the Nicoya Peninsula area, Costa Rica:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, Abstract 31-1.
Protti, M., McNally, K., Pacheco, J, Gonzales, V.,
Montero, C., Segura, J., Brenes, J., Barboza, V., Malavassi, E., Güendel, F.,
Simila, G., Rojas, D., Velasco, A., Mata, A., and Schillinger, W., 1995, The
March 25, 1990 (Mw = 7.0, ML = 6.8) earthquake at the entrace of the Nicoya
Gulf, Costa Rica: Its prior activity, foreshocks, aftershocks, and triggered
seismicity: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.100, p. 20,345– 20,358.
Husen, S., Kissling, E., and Quintero, R., 2002,
Tomographic evidence for a subducted seamount beneath the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa
Rica: The cause of the 1990 Mw7.0 Gulf of Nicoya earthquake: Geophysical
Research Letters, v. 29, doi:10.1029/2001GL014045.
Bilek, S.L., Schwartz, S.Y., and DeShon,
H.R., 2003, Control of seafloor roughness on earthquake rupture behavior:
Geology, v. 31, p. 455-458.
Newman, A.V., Schwartz, S.Y., Gonzales, V., DeShon,
H.R., Protti, J.M., and Dorman, L., 2002. Along strike variability in the
seismogenic zone below Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Geophysical Research
Letters, v. 29, doi:10.1029/2002GL015409.
Brown, K.M., Tryon, M.D., DeShon, H.R., Dorman, L.M.,
Schwartz, S.Y., 2005, Correlated transient fluid pulsing and seismic tremor in
the Costa Rica subduction zone: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 238,
p.189-203.
DeShon, H.R., Schwartz, S.Y., Newman, A.V., González,
V., Protti, M., Dorman, L.M. and Dixon, T.H., Sampson, D.E., and Flueh, E.R.,
2006, Seismogenic zone structure beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, from
three-dimensional local earthquake P- and S-wave tomography: Geophysical
Journal International, v. 164, p. 109–124.
Nicoya Peninsula: GPS Geodesy & Plate Coupling
Lundgren, P., Protti, M., Donnellan, A., Heflin, M.,
Hernandez, E., and Jefferson, D., 1999, Seismic cycle and plate margin
deformation in Costa Rica: GPS observations from 1994 to 1997: Journal of
Geophysical Research, v. 104, p. 28,915–28,926.
Iinuma, T., Protti, M., Obana, K., González, V., Van
der Laat, R., Kato, T., Miyazakia, S., Kaneda, Y., Hernández, E., 2004,
Inter-plate coupling in the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, as deduced from a
trans-peninsula GPS experiment: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 223, p.
203–212.
Norabuena, E., Dixon, T.H., Schwartz, S., DeShon, H.,
Newman, A., Protti, A., González, V., Dorman, L., Flueh, E.R., Lundgren, P.,
Pollitz, F., and Sampson, D., 2004, Geodetic and seismic constraints on some
seismogenic zone processes in Costa Rica: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.
109, B11403, doi:10.1029/2003JB002931.
Psencik, K.C., Dixon, T.H., Schwartz, S., Protti, M.,
and Gonzalez, V., 2008, Slow slip event under the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
as measured by a continuous GPS and seismic network: UNAVCO Science Workshop,
March 11-13, 2008, Boulder, Colorado, Abstract Volume.