Kirby explained that because of numerous geologic faults resulting from tectonic plate movement that continues today, there is no area in Panama that allows a full view of the strata making up the ...

A car crash-like collision between tectonic plates offshore of Colombia helps explain the region's unusual geology, a new study finds. Colombia sits at the complex junction of three small tectonic ...

They found that deep beneath Panama, the buried portions of the Cocos plate may hold the answer. When a tectonic plate slides under another tectonic plate during subduction, that subducting plate ...

The duo used a database of more than 100,000 seismic events along with tomographic data, gathered by sending waves or pulses into the earth to identify the prominent gash separating the Nazca and ...

An anomalous geochemical composition beneath Panama has been discovered by an international team of scientists – and they believed it did not form there. It formed over 1,500 kilometers (900 ...

Kirby explained that because of numerous geologic faults resulting from tectonic plate movement that continues today, there is no area in Panama that allows a full view of the strata making up the ...

the Caribbean plate to the north, the Panama plate to the west and the Nazca plate to the southwest. All of them border the northwestern corner of the giant South America plate. Both the Caribbean ...