Bussing, William A.(Revista de Biología Tropical, 2008-06)
An undescribed freshwater fish was recently discovered during a biological inventory of Area de
Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. This new species of Poeciliopsis is closely related to a
group of widespread ...
Fifty-five bryophyte species (21 hepatics, 34 mosses) are reported from the dry lowland forests and moist montane forests of the Santa Elena Peninsula and Islas Murciélago, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Over 50% of the ...
Baumgartner-Mora, Claudia; Denyer, Percy(Revista Geológica de América Central, 2002)
We report on a Upper Cretaceous
(Campanian-Maastrichtian) limestone sample
collected by P. Denyer and a group of students
during a field trip of the course Geología de
Campo II, of the Escuela Centroamericana de
Geología ...
Baumgartner, P. O.; Denyer, P.(Geologica Acta, 2006)
An oceanic assemblage of alkaline basalts, radiolarites and polymictic breccias forms the tectonic substratum
of the Santa Elena Nappe, which is constituted by extensive outcrops of ultramafic and mafic rocks of the
Santa ...
Costa Rica is on the trailing edge of the Carribean Plate, a plate that was initially produced over a hot spot, or mantle plume, in the Pacific Ocean during the Jurassic period (Mann 2007). The Carribean plate drifted ...