Bibliography of Central American Geology

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Southern Mexico

Blair, T. C., 1988, Mixed siliciclastic-carbonate marine and continental syn-rift sedimentation, Upper Jurassic-lowermost Cretaceous Todos Santos and San Ricardo Formations, western Chiapas, Mexico: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58, p. 623-636.

Böse, E., 1905, Reseña acerca de la geología de Chiapas y Tabasco: Boletín, Instituto Geologico de Mexico, v. 20, p. 116.

Burkart, B., 1978, Offset across the Polochic fault of Guatemala and Chiapas Mexico: Geology, v. 6, p. 328-332 Burkart, B., 1985, Geology and tectonic features, southern Mexico and Guatemala, in Ladd, J. W., and Buffler, R. T., eds., Middle America Trench off western Central America: Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Atlas Series, Marine Science International, p. sheets 14-15.

Burkart, B., Deaton, B. C., Dengo, C., and Moreno, G., 1987, Tectonic wedges and offset Laramide structures along the Polochic fault of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico: Reaffirmation of large Neogene displacement: Tectonics, v. 6, p. 411-422.

Caballero-M., Cecilia I. (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Paleomag. Lab., Instituto Geofisica, Mexico City, Mexico) and Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime. Paleocurrents from magnetic fabrics analysis and geological indicators in Tecomazuchil Formation, southern Mexico [abstr.]: in Geological Society of America, South-Central Section 31st annual meeting and Rocky Mountain Section 50th annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 29(2), p. 6, February 1997. Meeting: March 20-21, 1997, El Paso, TX.

Castro Escamilla, R. R., 1980, Un modelo de la corteza terrestre para el sur de México mediante el uso de sismos profundos [Ing. Tesis] [74 pages]: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Cardenas, M. (Ciudad Universitaria, Instituto de Ingeniera, Coyoacan, Mexico); Nunez-Cornu, F.; Lermo, J.; Cordoba, D. and Gonzalez, A. Seismic energy attenuation in the region between the coast of Guerrero and Mexico City; differences between paths along and perpendicular to the coast: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 105(1-2), p. 47-58, illus. incl. geol. sketch map, 36 ref., January 1998.

Claeys, Philippe (Inst. f. Mineralogie, Museum f. Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (philippe.claeys, z.hu-berlin.de)); Heuschkel, Sabine and Stoeffler, Dieter. Chicxulub and the kt: a case study for crater-ejecta relationships [abstr.]: in Geological Society of America, 1997 annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 29(6), 1997. Meeting: Oct. 20-23, 1997, Salt Lake City, UT.

Cuervo, Arturo Soto (Pemex Exploration and Production, Tampico, Mexico). The new Pemex and exploration in Mexico; an overview: in Mexico and Central America (Bertagne, Allen, chairperson), Leading Edge (Tulsa, OK), 16(12), p. 1759-1760, port., December 1997.

de Sansores, J. C. and C. Flores-Covarrubias, 1972. Foraminíferos Bentonicos del Terciario Superior de la Cuenca Salina del Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mex. Mexico City: Instituto MExicano del Petróleo.

Dostal, J. (Saint Mary's University, Department of Geology, Halifax, NS, Canada); Keppie, J. D. and Centeno-Garcia, E. Evaluation of potential late Mesozoic connections between the Insular Belt and Coast Mountain Orogen (Alaska-British Columbia) and the Guerrero Terrane western Mexico [abstr.]: in Geological Society of America, 1997 annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 29(6), p. 483, 1997. Meeting: Oct. 20-23, 1997, Salt Lake City, UT.

Durham, J. Wyatt, A. R. V. Arellano, and Joseph H. PeckJr, 1955. Evidence for no Cenozoic Isthmus of Tehuantepec seaways. Geological Society of America Bulletin 66: 977-92.

Enright, Richard (Bridgewater State College, Department of Earth Science and Geography, Bridgewater, MA). Hyperspectral analysis of the Iguala-Teloloapan area, State of Guerrero, Mexico [abstr.]: Proceedings of the Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing, 12(2), p. 425, 1 ref., 1997.

Ferrusquia-Villafran, Ismael (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, Mexico City, Mexico) and McDowell, Fred W. The Cenozoic magmatic and sedimentary record in seven selected areas across southeastern Mexico; its bearing to better understand the geologic evolution of this region [abstr.]: in Geological Society of America, 1997 annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 29(6), p. 482, 1997. Meeting: Oct. 20-23, 1997, Salt Lake City, UT.

Garcia-Perez, Frank (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Mexico City, Mexico) and Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime. Crustal structure of the Arteaga Complex, Michoacan, southern Mexico, from gravity and magnetics: Geofisica Internacional, 36(4), p. 235-244 (Spanish sum.), illus. incl. sketch map, 42 ref., December 1997.

Hernandez-Romano, Ulises (UNAM, Area de Exploracion de Recursos Energeticos, Mexico, Mexico); Aguilera-Franco, Noemi; Martinez-Medrano, Martin and Barcelo-Duarte, Jaime. Guerrero-Morelos Platform drowning at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Huitziltepec area, Guerrero State, southern Mexico: Cretaceous Research, 18(5), p. 661-686, illus. incl. charts, sects., 1 table, geol. sketch map, 69 ref., October 1997. Radiolaria, calcareous algae, foraminifera

Johnson, C. A., and Harrison, C.G.A., 1990, Neotectonics in central Mexico: Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., v. 64, p. 187-210.

Kesler, S. E., and Josey, W. L., 1973, Comparison of the pre-late Paleozoic basement complex on opposite sides of the Cuico-Chixoy-Polochic fault zone in western Guatemala and southern Mexico, Informe y trabajos técnicos presentados en la Tercera Reunión de Geólogos de América Central: Publicaciones Geológicas del ICAITI, p. 115-123.

Kohl, B., 1985. Early Pliocene benthic foraminifers from the Salina Basin, southeastern Mexico. Bulletin of American Paleontology 88: 173.

Martinez-Gutierrez, G. 1996. Initial Report of the Neogene stratigraphyof the Buenavista-San Jose del Cabo Basin, B.C.S., Mexico. Neogene events of the eastern tropical Pacific and Central American seaway.

Martiny, Barbara (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, Mexico City, Mexico); Martinez-Serrano, Raymundo; Ayuso, Robert A.; Macias-Romo, Consuelo; Moran-Zenteno, Dante J. and Alba-Aldave, Leticia. Pb isotope geochemistry of Tertiary igneous rocks and continental crustal complexes, southern Mexico [abstr.]: in AGU 1997 fall meeting, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 78(46, SUPPL.), p. 844, November 18, 1997. Meeting: Dec. 8-12, 1997, San Francisco, CA.

Mercier de Lepinay, B. and 5 others, 1997, Large Neogene subsidence event along the Middle America Trench off Mexico (18-19 N): evidence from submersible observations: Geology, v. 25, p. 387-390.

Meschede, M., Frische, W. Hermann, U.R. and Ratschbacher, L., 1997, Stress transmission across a consuming plate margin: correlation between convergence vector and paleostress tensor directions in southern Mexico, Tectonophysics, v. 266, p. 81-100.

Meza-Figueroa, D. (University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ) and Ruiz, J. Preservation of ocean island basalts and arc-like rare-earth-element patterns in eclogites; a case study of the Acatlan Complex, Southern Mexico [abstr.]: in Seventh annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference (?), LPI Contribution, 921, p. 141, 10 ref., 1997.

Moore, G. F. and T. H. Shipley, 1988. Mechanisms of sediment accretion in the Middle America Trench off Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 93: 8911-27.

Müllerried, F. K. G., 1942, The Mesozoic of México and northwestern Central America: Proceedings of the Eighth American Scientific Congress, v. 4, Geological Sciences, p. 125-147.

Nuttall, W. L. F., 1935. Upper Eocene Foraminifera from Mexico. J. of Paleontology 6: 3-35.

Oliver, Jim (Farallon Resources, Vancouver, BC, Canada); Payne, John and Rebagliati, Mark. Precious-metal-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, Campo Morado, Guerrero, Mexico: Exploration and Mining Geology, 6(2), p. 119-128, illus. incl. 3 tables, 9 ref., April 1997.

Richards, H. G., 1963, Stratigraphy of earliest Mesozoic sediments in southeastern Mexico and western Guatemala: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 47, p. 1861-1870.

Shipley, T. H. and others, 1982. Sedimentation in different tectonic environments of the Middle America Trench, southern Mexico and Guatemala. Trench-forearc geology; Sedimentation and tectonics on modern and ancient active plate margins, Editor J. K. Leggett, 95-106. Geological Society of London.

Steiner, M. B., and Walker, J. D., 1996, Late Silurian plutons in Yucatan: J Geophys Res-Solid Earth, v. 101, no. B8, p. 17727-17735.

Watkins, J. S., 1989. The Middle America Trench off southern Mexico. The Eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii, Editors E. L. Winterer, D. M. Hussong, and R. W. Decker, 523-34. The Geology of North America. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America.

Weber, B. (Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut, Munchen, Federal Republic of Germany); Moran-Zenteno, D. J.; Soellner, F. and Koehler, H. Magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the Grenville-age Guichicovi Complex in southern Mexico [abstr.]: in Seventh annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference (?), LPI Contribution, 921, p. 214-215, 5 ref., 1997.

Guatemala

Anderson, T. H., Erdlac, R. J., Jr., and Sandstrom, M. A., 1985, Late-Cretaceous allochthons and post-Cretaceous strike-slip displacement along the Cuilco-Chixoy-Polochic Fault, Guatemala: Tectonics, v. 4, p. 453-475.

Beccaluva, L., Bellia, S., Coltorti, M., Dengo, G., Giunta, G., Mendez, J., Romero, J., Rotolo, S., and Siena, F., 1995, The northwestern border of the Caribbean plate in Guatemala: New geological and petrological data on the Motagua ophiolitic belt: Ofioliti, v. 20, p. 1-15.

Bertrand, J., Delaloye, M., Fontignie, D., and Vuagnat, M., 1978, Ages (K-Ar) sur diverses ophiolites et roches associées de la Cordillère centrale du Guatémala: Bulletin Suisse de Minéralogie et Petrographie, v. 58, p. 405-412.

Bertrand, J., and Vuagnat, M., 1980, Inclusions in the serpentinite melange of the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala: Tectonic Inclusions and Associated Rocks in Serpentinites, v. 33, p. 321-335.

Bonis, S., 1969, A summary of the geology of Guatemala: Publicaciones Geológicas del ICAITI, v. 2, p. 76-80.

Bonis, S., 1970, Mapa Geológico de la República de Guatemala: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Bonis, S. B., 1965, Geología del Area de Quezaltenango (Translated into English by O.H. Bohnenberger), Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Guatemala: Guatemala, Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 84 p.

Bosc, E., 1971, Geology of the San Agustín Acasaguastlán quadrangle and northeastern part of El Progreso quadrangle [Ph.D. Diss.] [131 pages]: Rice University, Houston.

Bucknam, R. C., G. Plafker, and R. V. Sharp, 1978. Fault movement (afterslip) following the Guatemala earthquake of February 4, 1976. Geology 6: 170-3.

Burkart, B., 1965, Geology of the Esquipulas, Chanmagua and Cerro Montecristo quadrangles, southeastern Guatemala [Ph.D. Diss.] [121 pages]: Rice University, Houston.

Burkart, B., 1978. Offset across the Polochic fault of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. Geology 6: 328-32.

Burkart, B., 1983, Neogene North America-Caribbean plate boundary across northern Central America: Offset along the Polochic Fault: Tectonophysics, v. 99, p. 251-270.

Burkart, B., 1985, Geology and tectonic features, southern Mexico and Guatemala, in Ladd, J. W., and Buffler, R. T., eds., Middle America Trench off western Central America: Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Atlas Series, Marine Science International, p. sheets 14-15.

Burkart, B., Clemons, R. E., and Crane, D. C., 1973, Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphy of southeastern Guatemala: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 57, p. 63-73.

Burkart, B., Deaton, B. C., Dengo, C., and Moreno, G., 1987, Tectonic wedges and offset Laramide structures along the Polochic fault of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico: Reaffirmation of large Neogene displacement: Tectonics, v. 6, p. 411-422.

Carvalho Gonçalves da Silva, Z., 1967, Studies on jadeites and albitites from Guatemala [M.A. thesis] [21 pages]: Rice University, Houston.

Cepek, P., 1975, Die Kreide-Coccolithen aus de Referenz-Lokalität der Sepur-Folge bei Lanquin in Guatemala: Geologisches Jahrbuch, v. Band 14, p. 87-109.

Chesner, Craig A. (, Charleston, IL 61920) and Halsor, Sid P. Geochemical trends of sequential lava flows from Meseta volcano, Guatemala: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 78(3-4), p. 221-237, September 1997.

Clemons, R., Burkart, B., and Godoy O., J., 1969, Mapa Geológico General de Guatemala, Chiquimula ND 16-5 G: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Clemons, R. E., 1966, Geology of the Chiquimula quadrangle, Guatemala, Central America [Ph.D. Diss.] [124 pages]: The University of Texas, Austin.

Clemons, R. E., 1966, Mapa Geológico de Guatemala, Chiquimula sheet: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Clemons, R. E., Anderson, T. H., Bohnenberger, O. H., and Burkart, B., 1974, Stratigraphic nomenclature of recognized Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks of western Guatemala: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 58, p. 313-220.

Clemons, R. E. and L. E. Long, 1971. Petrologic and isotopic study of the Chiquimula Pluton, southeastern Guatemala. Geological Society of America Bulletin 82: 2729-40.

Crane, D. C., 1965, Geology of Jocotán and Timushán quadrangles, southeastern Guatemala [Ph.D. Diss.] [85 pages]: Rice University, Houston.

Deaton, B. C., and Burkart, B., 1984, Time of sinistral slip along the Polochic Fault of Guatemala: Tectonophysics, v. 102, p. 297-313.

Dengo, C. A., 1986, Comment on "Late Cretaceous allochthons and post-Cretaceous strike-slip displacement along the Cuilco-Chixoy-Polochic Fault, Guatemala" by T.H. Anderson, R.J. Erdlac, and M.A. Sandstrom: Tectonics, v. 5, p. 469-472.

Dengo, C. A., and Logan, J. M., 1981, Superimposed deformation environments along the Polochic fault zone in western Guatemala, Central America: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 13, p. 439.

Donnelly, T. W., 1977. Metamorphic rocks and structural history of the Motagua suture zone, eastern Guatemala. Caribbean Geological Conference, 8th, Abstracts with Programs: 40-1.

Erdlac, R. J., Jr., and Anderson, T. H., 1982, The Chixoy-Polochic fault and its associated fractures in western Guatemala: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 57-67.

Erikson, J. P., 1990, The Motagua fault zone of Guatemala and Cenozoic displacement of the Caribbean-North American plate boundary: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. A229.

Espinosa, A. F., 1976, The Guatemalan earthquake of February 4, 1976, a preliminary report, Professional Paper, U.S. Geological Survey, p. 90.

Foshag, W. F., and Leslie, R., 1955, Jadeite from Manzanal, Guatemala: American Antiquity, v. 21, p. 81-83.

Fourcade, E. (Departement de geologie sedimentaire, Universite Pierre-et-Marie-Curie et CNRS, URA 1761, pateontologie et stratigraphie, case 117, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France); Alonzo, M.; Barrillas, M.; Bellier, J. P.; Bonneau, M.; Cosillo, A.; Cros, P.; Debrabant, P.; Gardin, S.; Masure, E.; Philip, J.; Renard, M.; Rocchia, R. and Romero, J. La limite Cretace/Tertiaire dans le sud-ouest du Peten (Guatemala) [The K/T boundary in southwestern Peten (Guatemala)]: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 325(1), p. 57-64 (English sum.), 25 ref., 1997.

Gomberg, D. N., Banks, P. D., and McBirney, A. R., 1968, Guatemala: Preliminary zircon ages from the Central Cordillera: Science, v. 162, p. 121-122.

Harlow, G. E., 1990, Constraints on the geochemical and P-T evolution of Guatemalan jadeitite and related inclusions in serpentinite: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. 349.

Harlow, G.E., Jadeites, Albitites and Related Rocks from the Motagua Fault zone, Guatemala. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 1993

Johnson, K. R., 1984, Geology of the Gualan and southern Sierra de las Minas quadrangles, Guatemala [Ph.D. Diss.] [355 pages]: State University of New York, Binghamton.

Johnson, K. R., and Muller, P. D., 1985, Guatemala's Motagua Valley: a neglected piece of the northern Caribbean puzzle: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, p. 620.

Johnson, K. R., and Muller, P. D., 1986, Late Cretaceous collisional tectonics in the southern Yucatán block of Guatemala: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Progs., v. 18, p. 647.

Kanamori, H., and Stewart, G. S., 1978, Seismological aspects of the Guatemala earthquake of February 4, 1976: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 83, p. 3427-3454.

Kesler, S. E., Josey, W. L., and Collins, E. M., 1970, Basement rocks of western nuclear Central America: The western Chuacús Group, Guatemala: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p. 3307-3322.

Knutson, Steve. NSS Guatemala expedition 1997; Santa Cruz Mountains, Peten: NSS News, 56(1), p. 5- 14, January 1998.

Kornicker, L. S. and W. R. Bryant, 1969. Sedimentation on Continental Shelf of Guatemala and Honduras. American Association of Petroleum Geologists 11: 244-57.

Kupfer, D. H., and Godoy O., J., 1967, Strike-slip faulting in Guatemala: Transactions American Geophysical Union, v. 48, p. 215.

Ladd, J. W. and others, 1982. Interpretation of seismic reflection data of the Middle America Trench offshore Guatemala. Editors J. Aubouin and others, 675-89. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Ladd, J. W. and S. Schroder, 1985. Seismic stratigraphy of the continental shelf offshore Guatemala; implications for vertical tectonics related to subduction. 878-93. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. United States.

Langer, C. J., and Bollinger, G. A., 1979, Secondary faulting near the terminus of a seismogenic strike-slip fault: Aftershocks of the 1976 Guatemala earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 69, p. 427-444.

Lawrence, David P. 1975, Petrology and Structural Geology of the Sanarate-El Progreso Area, Guatemala. PhD, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Litke, Gene 1975, The Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of Barillas Quadrangle, Departmment of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, C. A.. MS, The University of Texas at Arlington.

Machorro Sagastume, R. A., 1993, Geology of the northwestern corner of the Granados quadrangle, central Guatemala [M.A. thesis] [89 pages]: University of Texas, El Paso.

Marini, Luigi (Universita di Genova, Dipartimento de Scienze della Terra, Genova, Italy); Cioni, Roberto and Guidi, Massimo. Water chemistry of San Marcos area, Guatemala: Geothermics, 27(3), p. 331-360, 26 ref., June 1998.

Matumoto, T., and Latham, G. V., 1976, Aftershocks of the Guatemala earthquake of February 4, 1976: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 3, p. 599-602.

McBirney, A., Aoki, K.-I., and Bass, M. N., 1967, Eclogites and jadeite from the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala: American Mineralogist, v. 52, p. 908-918.

McBirney, A. R., 1963, Geology of a part of the Central Guatemalan Cordillera: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 38, no. 4, p. 177-242.

Mosquera, A., 1984, Los Chortís en Guatemala, Editorial Universitaría, Colección Realidad Nuestra, 136 p..

Muehlberger, W. and A. W. Ritchie, 1975. Caribbean-Americas plate boundary in Guatemala and southern Mexico as seen on Skylab IV orbital photography. Geology 3: 232-5.

Muller, P. D., 1977, Mapa Geológico de Guatemala, Los Amates sheet: Instituto Geográfico Militar.

Muller, P. D., 1980, Geology of the Los Amates quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala, Central America [Ph.D. Diss.] [326 pages]: State University of New York, Binghamton.

Newcomb, W. E., 1975, Geology, structure, and metamorphism of the Chuacús group, Rio Hondo quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala [Ph.D. diss.] [115 pages]: State University of New York, Binghamton.

Newcomb, W. E., 1978, Mapa Geológico de Guatemala, Río Hondo sheet: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Newcomb, W. E., 1978, Retrograde cataclastic gneiss north of Motagua fault zone, east-central Guatemala: Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 57, p. 271-276.

Newhall, C. G., 1987, Geology of the Lake Atitlán region, western Guatemala: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 33, p. 23-55.

Newhall, C. G., Paull, C. K., Bradbury, J. P., Higuera-Gundy, A., Poppe, L. J., Self, S., Bonar Sharpless, N., and Ziagos, J., 1987, Recent geologic history of Lake Atitlán, a caldera lake in western Guatemala: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 33, p. 81-107.

Paulsen, S., 1976, Mapa Geológico de Guatemala, Cobán sheet: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Petersen, E. W., and Zantop, H., 1980, The Oxec deposit, Guatemala: an ophiolite copper occurrence: Econ. Geol., v. 75, p. 1053-1065.

Plafker, G., 1976. Tectonic aspects of the Guatemala earthquake of 4 February 1976. Science 93: 1201-8.

Powers, S., 1918, Notes on the geology of eastern Guatemala and northwestern Spanish Honduras: Journal of Geology, v. 26, p. 507-523.

Reeves, T. K., Jr., 1967, Geology of the southern half of the El Progreso quadrangle, El Progreso, Guatemala [M.A. thesis] [87 pages]: Rice University, Houston.

Reynolds, J. H., 1987, Timing and sources of Neogene and Quaternary volcanism in south-central Guatemala: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 33, p. 9-22.

Richards, H. G., 1963, Stratigraphy of earliest Mesozoic sediments in southeastern Mexico and western Guatemala: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 47, p. 1861-1870.

Ritchie, A. W., 1976, Jocotán fault -- possible western extension, Informe y trabajos técnicos presentados en la IV Reunión de Geólogos de América Central: Publicaciones Geológicas del ICAITI, p. 52-55.

Ritchie, A. W., and McDowell, F. W., 1979, K-Ar ages of plutonic and volcanic rocks from the volcanic highlands of Guatemala northwest of Guatemala City: Isochron/West, no. no. 25, p. 3-4.

Roper, P. J., 1978, Stratigraphy of the Chuacús Group on the south side of the Sierra de las Minas range, Guatemala: Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 57, p. 309-313.

Rosenfeld, J. H., 1980. The Santa Cruz ophiolite, Guatemala, Central America. Caribbean Geological Conference, 9th, Transactions: 451-2.

Rosenfeld, J. H., 1981, Geology of the Western Sierra de Santa Cruz Guatemala, Central America: An ophiolite sequence [Ph.D. Diss.] [313 pages]: State University of New York, Binghamton.

Rosenfeld, J. H., 1991, Sedimentary rocks of the Santa Cruz ophiolite, Guatemala - a proto-Caribbean history, in Larue, D. K., and Draper, G., eds., Transactions, 12th Caribbean Geological Conference, St. Croix, U.S.V.I., Miami Geological Society, p. 513-519.

Schwartz, D. P., 1978, Mapa Geológico de Guatemala, Zacapa sheet: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Schwartz, D. P., and Newcomb, W. E., 1973, Motagua Fault Zone: a crustal suture: EOS (Transactions American Geophysical Union), v. 54, p. T122.

Silva, Z. C. G., 1969, Estudio sobre jadeitas y albititas de Guatemala, Boletin Geológico, Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 22 p.

Smith, D. C. (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Paris, France) and Gendron, F. New locality and a new kind of jadeite jade from Guatemala; rutile-quartz-jadeitite [abstr.]: in Fifth international eclogite conference, Terra Abstracts, 9, Suppl.1, p. 35, 1997. Meeting: Sept. 1-5, 1997, Ascona, Switzerland.

Sutter, J. F., 1979, Late Cretaceous collisional tectonics along the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 11, p. 525-526.

Tobisch, K., and Schwartz, D. P., 1982, Late Quaternary geomorphic development of the central Motagua Valley, Guatemala: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, p. 632.

Vachard, D. (Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, UFR des Sciences de la Terre, URA 1365 du CNRS, Laboratoire de Paleontologie - Bat. SN5, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France); Fourcade, E.; Romero, J. E.; Mendez, J.; Cosillo, A.; Alonzo, M.; Requena, J.; Azema, J. and Cros, P. Foraminiferes et algues du Permien du Guatemala [Permian foraminifera and Algae from Guatemala]: Geobios, 30(6), p. 745-784 (English sum.), 11 tables, 5 p.1/4 ref., 1997.

Vinson, G. L., 1962. Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary stratigraphy of Guatemala. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 46: 425-56.

von Huene, R., J. Aubouin, and others, 1980. Leg 67; The Deep Sea Drilling Project Mid-American Trench off Guatemala. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part I 91: 421-32.

von Huene, R. and others, 1985. A study of geophysical data along the IPOD active margin transect off Guatemala. Editors J. Aubouin, R. von Huene, and others, 895-910. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Walker, J. A., Carr, M. J., Patino, L. C., Johnson, C. M., Feigenson, M. D., and Ward, R. L., 1995, Abrupt change in magma generation processes across the Central American arc in southeastern Guatemala: Flux dominated melting near the base of the wedge to decompression melting near the top of the wedge: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 120, no. 3-4, p. 378-390.

Walper, J. L., 1960, Geology of Cobán-Purulhá area, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 44, p. 1273-1315.

Walper, J. L., 1970, The role of the Chamelcón fault in Caribbean tectonics, submitted to Proceedings of the First Latin American Geological Congress: Lima, 28 p.

White, R. A., 1985, The Guatemala earthquake of 1816 on the Chixoy-Polochic fault: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 75, p. 455-473.

Williams, H., 1960. Volcanic history of the Guatemala highlands. University of California Publications in Geology 38: 1-86

Williams, H., and McBirney, A. R., 1964, Petrologic and structural contrast of the Quaternary volcanoes of Guatemala: Bull. Volcanol., v. 27, p. 61.

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El Salvador

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Fabriol, Hubert (Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, Orleans, France) and Beauce, Alain. Temporal and spatial distribution of local seismicity in the Chipilapa-Ahuachapan geothermal area, El Salvador: in Ahuachapan-Chipilapa geothermal fields, El Salvador (Nieva, David, editor), Geothermics, 26(5-6), p. 681-699, 24 ref., December 1997.

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Jacqueline, Michel (Research Planning, Columbia, SC) and Zengel, Scott. Monitoring of oysters and sediments in Acajutla, El Salvador: Marine Pollution Bulletin, 36(4), p. 256-266, illus. incl. 2 tables, sketch map, 8 ref., April 1998.

Kemper, E., and Weber, H.-S., 1979, Über einige Cenoman-Fossilien aus El Salvador und ihre biostratigraphische und paläogeogrphische Bedeutung: Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B, v. Heft 37, p. 3-29.

Nieva, David, editor (Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Mexico). Ahuachapan-Chipilapa geothermal fields, El Salvador: Geothermics, 26(5-6), p. 553-727, December 1997.

Nieva, David (Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Mexico); Verma, Mahendra Pal; Santoyo, Edgar; Portugal, Enrique and Campos, Alejandro. Geochemical exploration of the Chipilapa geothermal field, El Salvador: in Ahuachapan-Chipilapa geothermal fields, El Salvador (Nieva, David, editor), Geothermics, 26(5-6), p. 589-612, 28 ref., December 1997.

Partida, Eduardo Gonzalez (Instituto de Inverstigaciones Electricas, Departamento Geotermia, Cuernavaca, Mexico); Rodriguez, Vicente Torres and Birkle, Peter. Plio-Pleistocene volcanic history of the Ahuachapan geothermal system, El Salvador; the concepcion de Ataco Caldera: in Ahuachapan-Chipilapa geothermal fields, El Salvador (Nieva, David, editor), Geothermics, 26(5-6), p. 555-575, 35 ref., December 1997.

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Perez Flores, Marco A. (CICESE, Divisio de Ciencias de la Tierra, Ensenada, Mexico) and Trevino, Enrique Gomez. Dipole-dipole resistivity imaging of the Ahuachapan-Chipilapa geothermal field, El Salvador: in Ahuachapan-Chipilapa geothermal fields, El Salvador (Nieva, David, editor), Geothermics, 26(5-6), p. 657-680, 29 ref., December 1997.

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Belize

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Ferro, C. Elmer (Rice University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Houston, TX); Droxler, Andre W.; Mucciarone, Dave A.; Anderson, John B. and Morrice, Susan. Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Belize margin; strike-oriented depositional sequence model in a carbonate-siliciclastic system [abstr.]: in American Association of Petroleum Geologists 1997 annual convention, Annual Meeting Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 6, p. 35, 1997. Meeting: April 6-9, 1997, Dallas, TX.

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Ocampo, A. (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA); Pope, K.; Fischer, A.; Alvarez, W.; Fouke, B.; Asaro, F.; Webster, C., Jr.; Vega, F.; Smit, J.; Fritsche, A. E.; Claeys, P.; Rampino, M. and King, D., Jr. Chicxulub impact ejecta in Belize [abstr.]: in Conference on large meteorite impacts and planetary evolution; (Sudbury 1997) (?), LPI Contribution, 922, p. 37-38, 1 ref., 1997. Meeting: Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, Sept. 1-3, 1997, Sudbury, ON, Canada.

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Nicaragua

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Roggensack, Kurt (Arizona State University, Department of Geology, Tempe, AZ); Hervig, Richard L.; McKnight, Steven B. and Williams, Stanley N. Explosive basaltic volcanism from Cerro Negro volcano; influence of volatiles in eruptive style: Science, 277(5332), p. 1639-1642, illus. incl. 2 tables, sketch map, 25 ref., September 12, 1997.

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Costa Rica

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Aguilar, Teresita and Rudolf Fischer, 1986. Moluscos de la Formacion Montezuma (Plioceno-Pleistoceno; Costa Rica). Geologica et Palaeontologica 20: 209-41.

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Barboza, Guillermo (Ministerio de Ambiente Y Energia, San Jose, Costa Rica); Fernandez, Jose A.; Barrientos, Jaime and Bottazi, Giovanni. Costa Rica; petroleum geology of the Caribbean margin: in Mexico and Central America (Bertagne, Allen, chairperson), Leading Edge (Tulsa, OK), 16(12), p. 1787-1794, illus. incl. geol. sketch maps, sects., strat. col., December 1997.

Barckhausen, Udo (Universitaet Goettingen, Institut fuer Geophysik, Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany); Roeser, Hans A. and von Huene, Roland. Magnetic signature of upper plate structures and subducting seamounts at the convergent margin off Costa Rica: Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, 103(4), p. 7079-7093, illus. incl. 1 table, 39 ref., April 10, 1998.

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Baxter, S. 1976. Estudio geológico de las formaciones Mata de Limón y Punta Carballo, Costa Rica. Licenciatura thesis, Escuela Centroamericana de Geología, Universidad de Costa Rica.

Bellon, H. and J. Tournon, 1978. Contribution de la geochronométrie K-Ar a l'étude du magmatisme de Costa Rica, Amérique Centrale. Bulletin de la Societé Géologique de France 7 XX, 6: 955-9.

Berrange, J. P., 1977. Reconnaissance geology of the Tapantí Quadrangle, Talamanca Cordillera, Costa Rica. London: Institute of Geological Sciences, Overseas Division report .

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Berrange, J. P., D. R. Bradley, and N. J. Snelling, 1989. K/Ar age dating of the ophiolitic Nicoya Complex of the Osa Peninsula, southern Costa Rica. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 2, 1: 49-59.

Berrange, J. P. and R. S. Thorpe, 1988. The geology, geochemistry and emplacement of the Cretaceous-Tertiary ophiolitic Nicoya Complex of the Osa Peninsula, southern Costa Rica. Tectonophysics 147: 193-220.

Berry, E. W., 1921. Tertiary fossil plants from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 59: 169-85. Washington, DC.

Bolanos I., K. and others, 1986. Coal exploration stage I, Uatsi project, Baja Talamanca, Costa Rica results and recommendations. United States Geological Survey Open File Report 121: 1-24.

Borne, Pamela F. 1995. Evidence of Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene environmental change and possible coastal upwelling based on marine ostracodes from the Moin Formation, Costa Rica. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 45, p. 61-64.

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Buffler, R. T., 1982. Geologic structure of the forearc region off the west coast of Costa Rica in the vicinity of the Nicoya Peninsula; Results of a multifold seismic reflection survey. University of Texas Institute of Geophysics. Note: , unpublished.

Bundt, Maya (University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Science and Soil Geography, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany); Kretzschmar, Sigrid; Zech, Wolfgang and Wilcke, Wolfgang. Seasonal redistribution of manganese of soil aggregates of a Costa Rican coffee field: Soil Science, 162(9), p. 641-647, illus. incl. 3 tables, sketch map, 28 ref., September 1997.

Calvo V, Claudio and Angela Bolz, 1987. La secuencia de Venado, un estuario lagunar tropical del Mioceno Medio, San Carlos, Costa Rica. Revista Geologica de America Central 6: 1-24.

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Crowe, J. C. and R. T. Buffler, 1983. Regional seismic reflection profiles across the Middle America Trench and convergent margin of Costa Rica. Seismic expression of structural styles; a picture and work atlas, vol 3, Editor A. W. Bally, 3.4.2.147-3.4.2.162. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology.

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de Boer, J. Z. and others. 1995. Cenozoic magmatic phases of the Costa Rican island arc (Cordillera de Talamanca). Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in southern Central America, Editor P. Mann, 35-55. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.

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