Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...

Why Central American Volcanoes Are Ideal for Studying Earth’s Evolution The volcanic arc extending from Mexico to Costa Rica expels a variety of magma types that make for a geological paradise.

Central America was wrought in the fiery forge of its colossal volcanoes. Trailing like a lava burned welt between North and ...

A chain of Central America's most active volcanoes has given a team of researchers from the University of New Mexico (UNM), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Northern Illinois University a ...

The Ilopango caldera is situated within the Central American Volcanic Arc (CAVA), which stretches from Guatemala to Panama along the Pacific coast.

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. A subduction zone, composed of the ... Italy or Central America). However, ...

The data reveal that many volcanic arcs mobilize carbon from large, crustal carbonate platforms -- particularly in Italy, the Central American Volcanic Arc, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

"We found that in particular places of Central America, namely western Panama and behind the volcanic arc in Costa Rica, we have some exotic signatures [of geochemistry] that really resemble what ...

The volcano is part of the Central American Volcanic Arc, which extends about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) along the Pacific coast of Central America. These volcanoes sit on the western edge of ...