[1] We present the first regional surface velocity field for Central America, showing crustal response to interaction of the Cocos and Caribbean plates. Elastic half-space models for interseismic strain accumulation on the dipping subduction plate boundary fit the GPS data well and show strain accumulation offshore and beneath the Nicoya and Osa peninsulas in Costa Rica but not in Nicaragua. Si...

In this paper, static and free vibrations behaviors of the orthotropic functionally graded material (FGM) plates resting on the two-parameter elastic foundation are analyzed by the a mesh-free method based on the first order shear deformation plate theory (FSDT). The mesh-free method is based on moving least squares (MLS) shape functions and essential boundary conditions are imposed by transfer...

The Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb experience moderate earthquake activity and oblique, ∼ NW–SE convergence between Africa and Eurasia at a rate of ∼ 5 mm/yr. Coeval extension in the Alboran Basin and a N35°E trending band of active, left-lateral shear deformation in the Alboran–Betic region are not straightforward to understand in the context of regional shortening, and evidence complexity ...

Analysis of spatial, temporal, geological and geochemical patterns of ophiolites in the Indonesian and New Guinea region indicates a strong correlation with marginal basin development and closure. The spatial distribution of ophiolites is mostly linked with marginal basin producing zones of oblique convergence and collision. Strain partitioning in these zones creates a series of ephemeral plate...

Abstract In cordilleran-type orogens, subduction geometry exerts a fundamental control on the tectonic behavior of overriding plate. An integrated low-temperature, large thermochronological data set is used in this study to investigate burial and exhumation history plate northern Patagonia (40°–45°S). Thermal inverse modeling allowed us establish that ?2.5–4-km-thick section originally overlaid...

Abstract. The Reissner-Mindlin plate theory models a thin plate with thickness t. The condition numbers of finite element approximations of this model deteriorate badly as the thickness t of the plate converges to 0. In this paper, we develop an overlapping domain decomposition method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model discretized by the Falk-Tu elements with the convergence rate which does n...

Deep Sea Drilling results in the Indian Ocean and mapping of Mesozoic magnetic anomalies allow construction of a model for the plate system in the early Indian Ocean. In spite of the fact that the concept of Gondwanaland, the late Paleozoic supercontinent of the Southern Hemisphere, has been extant for over 50 years (Wegener, 1929; DuToit, 1937), the details of the exact configuration of its co...