Journals/Books (notify us)

Bolton, A.J., Clennell, M.B., and Maltman, A.J., 1999. Nonlinear stress dependence of permeability: A mechanism for episodic fluid flow in accretionary wedges. Geology, 27:239–242. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0239:NSDOPA>2.3.CO;2

Chan, L.-H., and Kastner, M., 2000. Lithium isotopic compositions of pore fluids and sediments in the Costa Rica subduction zone: implications for fluid processes and sediment contribution to the arc volcanoes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 183:275–290. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00275-2

Gettemy, G.L., and Tobin, H.J., 2003. Tectonic signatures in centimeter-scale velocity-porosity relationships of Costa Rica convergent margin sediments. J. Geophys. Res., 108. doi:10.1029/2001JB000738

Hensen, C., and Wallmann, K., 2005. Methane formation at Costa Rica continental margin—constraints for gas hydrate inventories and cross-décollement fluid flow. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236:41–60. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.007

Housen, B.A., and Kanamatsu, T., 2003. Magnetic fabrics from the Costa Rica margin: sediment deformation during the initial dewatering and underplating process. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 206:215–228. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01076-2

Ibaraki, M., 2002. Pliocene–Pleistocene planktonic foraminifera from the East Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and their paleoceanographic implications. Mar. Micropaleontol., 46:13–24. doi:10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00046-4

Kopf, A., Deyhle, A., Zuleger, E., 2000. Evidence for deep fluid circulation and gas hydrate dissociation using boron isotopes of pore fluids in forearc sediments from Costa Rica (ODP Leg 170). Mar. Geol., 167:1–28. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00026-8

Lückge, A., Kastner, M., Littke, R., and Cramer, B., 2002. Hydrocarbon gas in the Costa Rica subduction zone: primary composition and post-genetic alteration. Org. Geochem., 33:933–943. doi:10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00063-3

McIntosh, K.D., and Sen, M.K., 2000. Geophysical evidence for dewatering and deformation processes in the ODP Leg 170 area offshore Costa Rica. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 178:125–138. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00069-8

Meschede, M., Barckhausen, U., and Worm, H.-U., 1998. Extinct spreading on the Cocos Ridge. Terra Nova, 10:211–216. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00195.x

Meschede, M., Zweigel, P., Frisch, W., and Völker, D., 1999. Mélange formation by subduction erosion: the case of the Osa mélange in southern Costa Rica. Terra Nova, 11:141–148. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.00237.x

Meschede, M., Zweigel, P., and Kiefer, E., 1999. Subsidence and extension at a convergent plate margin: evidence for tectonic erosion off Costa Rica. Terra Nova, 11:112–117. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.d01-54.x

Moritz, E., Bornholdt, S., Westphal, H., and Meschede, M., 2000. Neural network interpretation of LWD data (ODP Leg 170) confirms complete sediment subduction at the Costa Rica convergent margin. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 174:301–312. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00270-8

Morris, J., Valentine, R., and Harrison, T., 2002. ¹⁰Be imaging of sediment accretion and subduction along the northeast Japan and Costa Rica convergent margins. Geology, 30:59–62. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0059:BIOSAA>2.0.CO;2

Saffer, D.M., 2003. Pore pressure development and progressive dewatering in underthrust sediments at the Costa Rican subduction margin: comparison with northern Barbados and Nankai. J. Geophys. Res., 108. doi:10.1029/2002JB001787

Saffer, D.M., and Screaton, E.J., 2003. Fluid flow at the toe of convergent margins: interpretation of sharp pore-water geochemical gradients. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 213:261–270. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00343-1

Saito, S., and Goldberg, D., 2001. Compaction and dewatering processes of the oceanic sediments in the Costa Rica and Barbados subduction zones: estimates from in situ physical property measurements. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 191:283–293. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00403-4

Silver, E., and the Leg 170 Scientific Party, 1997. Complete sediment subduction and implications of fluid flow in the Middle America Trench off Costa Rica. JOIDES J., 23(2):1–3, 17. [Article]

Tobin, H., Vannuchi, P., and Meschede, M., 2001. Structure, inferred mechanical properties, and implications for fluid transport in the décollement zone, Costa Rica convergent margin. Geology, 29:907–910. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0907:SIMPAI>2.0.CO;2

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, 20:649–668. doi:10.1029/2000TC001223

Vannucchi, P., and Tobin, H., 2000. Deformation structures and implications for fluid flow at the Costa Rica convergent margin, Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1040 and 1043, Leg 170. J. Struct. Geol., 22:1087–1103. doi:10.1016/S0191-8141(00)00027-4

Conferences (notify us)

Barckhausen, U., Ranero, C.R., Meschede, M., and von Huene, R., 1998. Mapping the trace of the triple junction of the East-Pacific-Rise and Cocos-Nazca-Spreading Center off Costa Rica. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union suppl., 79:F859. (Abstract)

Meschede, M., and Barckhausen, U., 1999. The age of submarine ridges in the Eastern Panama Basin: Constraints from palinspastic restorations. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union Suppl., 80:F1045. (Abstract)

Meschede, M., and Barckhausen, U., 2000. The geometry of the Cocos Plate evolution: age predictions for submarine ridges in the Eastern Panama Basin [paper presented at European Ocean Drilling Program Workshop, La Grande-Motte, 2000].

Meschede, M., Barckhausen, U., and Worm, H.-U., 1998. A new understanding of the plate tectonic evolution of the Cocos Plate: results from a multidisciplinary study [paper presented at Ocean Drilling Forum, Edinburgh, October 1998].

Meschede, M., Weiss, R., and Hemleben, C., 2000. Subsidence at the Costa Rica convergent margin: evidence from various disciplines [paper presented at European Ocean Drilling Program Workshop, La Grande-Motte, 2000].

Meschede, M., and Zweigel, P., 1998. Subsidence and extension at a convergent margin: evidence for tectonic erosion [paper presented at Ocean Drilling Forum, Edinburgh, October 1998].

Meschede, M., and Zweigel, P., 1999. Subsidence and extension at a convergent plate margin: evidence for tectonic erosion off Costa Rica. J. Conf. Abs., 4:39–40. (Abstract)

Meschede, M., Zweigel, P., Frisch, W., and Völker, D., 2000. Mélange formation by subduction erosion: the case of the Osa mélange in southern Costa Rica [paper presented at the XXV General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, 25–29 April 2000].

Meschede, M., Zweigel, P., Frisch, W., and Völker, D., 2000. The Costa Rica convergent margin: A textbook example for subduction erosion [paper presented at International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 2000].

Meschede, M., Zweigel, P., and Scholl, D.W., 1998. Exhumation of an ancient seismogenic zone in southern Costa Rica: evidence of a former tectonically erosive margin. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union suppl., 79:F394. (Abstract)

Scholl, D.W., Vannucchi, P., and Meschede, M., 2000. The Pacific margin of Costa Rica records a long history of subduction erosion--evidence and thoughts about tectonic processes governing the evolution of the Middle America Margin [paper presented at UMG Meeting, Puerto Vallarta, 2000].

Scholl, D., Vannucchi, P., and Von Heune, R., 1998. Wonderments about new drilling and coastal outcrop observations suggesting that subduction erosion has removed (recycled?) significant volumes (1-2 km of landward trench-axis advance/my) of Costa Rican crustal rocks during the past 20–25 my [paper presented at Subduction Factory International Workshop, La Jolla, 7–9 June 1998].

Scholl, D., Von Heune, R., Ranero, C.R., and Vannucchi, P., 1998. Deep reflection imaging and drilling at convergent margins persist in documenting subduction-caused erosion of upper plate lithosphere: new example from Costa Rica and the broader implications for interpreting seismic images of ancient orogenic belts and arc [paper presented at 8th International Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling, Barcelona, September 1998].

Vannucchi, P., Bolton, A., Clennell, B., and Maltman, A., 1998. Deformation structures and fracture permeability tests on sediments from site 1040 and 1043, ODP Leg 170, Costa Rica margin [paper presented at ODP Forum, Edimburgh, 19–22 September 1998].

Vannucchi, P., Meschede, M., and Scholl, D.W., 1998. Tectonic erosion of the Pacific margin of Costa Rica: combined implications of offshore drilling, a regional "base-of-slope-sediment-BOSS" reflector and a regional unconformity on the Nicoya and Osa peninsulas [paper presented at ODP Forum, Edimburgh, 19–22 September 1998].

Vannucchi, P., Scholl, D.W., and Meschede, M., 2000. Subduction erosion as the major process controlling the evolution of the Costa Rica sector of the Middle America Trench: Leg 170 drilling results and coastal studies of the adjacent Nicoya Peninsula. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union suppl., 81:1179.

Völker, D., and Meschede, M., 1999. Finite element modelling of convergent margin wedge dynamics. J. Conf. Abs., 4:838. (Abstract)

Völker, D., and Meschede, M., 1999. Finite element modelling of stress and deformation at convergent margins. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union suppl., 80:F573. (Abstract)

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