The Genesis of Central America: Biology versus Geophysics

1 November 1994

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Vol. 4 (6) , 169
https://doi.org/10.2307/2997648

Abstract

The predominant geophysical theory for the origin of Central America proposes that, in the Cretaceous-Paleocene, the Caribbean Plate migrated from the Eastern P...

Keywords

GENESIS
CARIBBEAN PLATE
GEOPHYSICAL THEORY
CRETACEOUS PALEOCENE
AMERICA PROPOSES
PLATE MIGRATED