Cental America

Imaging the mantle wedge in the Central American Subduction Factory

The Central American subduction zone is an important active volcanic margin. The region displays serveral along strike variations in subduction zone parameters, such as volcanic productivity, magma composition (major and trace elements abundances as well as volatile content), trench-arc distance, obliquity of subduction, and slab age, dip, and topography. These differences occur over a relatively short distance from Costa Rica to Nicaragua, and are the main motivation for Central America being one of the NSF-MARGINS focus sites. The TUCAN seismic array has allowed us to image and interpret numerous mantle and crustal charateristics that shed light on the source of these variations.

*This site is currently under construction and will be updated shortly. Please check back soon to read more about the project and see some results. For now you can get a brief overview here -> Current Research

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