Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary paleomagnetic data and a revised tectonostratigraphic subdivision of Costa Rica and western Panama

1995 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianni Di Marco ◽  
Peter O. Baumgartner ◽  
James E.T. Channell
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Paleomagnetic Data ◽  
Early Tertiary

Rediscovery of Choroterpes atramentum in Costa Rica, type species of Tikuna new genus (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae), and its role in the "Great American Inter-change"

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 932 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRY M. SAVAGE ◽  
R. WILLS FLOWERS ◽  
WENDY PORRAS V.
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
South American ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Geological Formation

A new genus, Tikuna, is described based on recent collections of adults and nymphs of Choroterpes atramentum Traver from western Costa Rica. All recent collections are from streams on or near the Nicoya Complex, the oldest geological formation in Lower Central America. Tikuna belongs to a lineage of South American Atalophlebiinae (Leptophlebiidae: Ephemeroptera) whose origin is hypothesized to have been in the late Cretaceous–early Tertiary. Some implications of the distribution of Tikuna for theories on the origin of Costa Rica’s biota are discussed.

Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary plutonism and deformation in the Skagit Gneiss Complex, North Cascade Range, Washington and British Columbia

1991 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
pp. 1297-1307 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALPH A. HAUGERUD ◽  
PETER VAN DER HEYDEN ◽  
ROWLAND W. TABOR ◽  
JOHN S. STACEY ◽  
ROBERT E. ZARTMAN
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Cascade Range ◽  
Gneiss Complex ◽  
Early Tertiary

scholarly journals Seismic stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of the Lower Cretaceous in the Danish Central Trough

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Ole Valdemar Vejbæk
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Weak Inversion ◽  
Stratigraphic Analysis ◽  
New Name ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Central Trough ◽  
Block Faulting

The Lower Cretaceous sequence of the Danish Central Trough has been studied by the use of seismic stratigraphic analysis. The sequence has been subdivided into 6 seismic stratigraphic units named LCA, LCB, LCC, LCD, LCE and LCF. The studied area includes the Feda Graben, the Gertrud Graben (new name), the Tail End Graben, the Arne-Elin Graben (new name) and the Salt Dome Province, whereas the Grensen Nose and the Outer Rough Basin are not included. These basins are separated by the Inge High, the Mads High, the Gert Ridge (new name), the Manda! High, the Heno Plateau (new name) and the Pollerne Ridge (new name). The fault controlled subsidence of the Lower Cretaceous basins is claimed to have been governed by left lateral transtensional wrenching. This wrenching gradually ceased and gave way to regional subsidence with intermittent events of inversion resulting from right lateral transpressive wrenching in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary. The first weak inversion is shown to have occurred in the Late Hauterivian. Sedimentation was influenced by a general gradual relative rise in sea-level starting with a low in the Volgian - Early Ryazanian times coeval with the deposition of the Farsund Formation and culminating in the Late Cretaceous. At the beginning of the Early Cretaceous gravity flow became an important depositional mechanism and resulted in preferred deposition in topographical lows, which were generated by simple tensional block-faulting or by wrench-induced, rapid local subsidence. As tectonic activity decreased and the elastic source areas became more remote and worn down, depocentres became less pronounced, especially with the last unit of the Lower Cretaceous.

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