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Cocos plate subduction and volcanism in southern Mexico: An earthquake that occured in Mexico city in 1985 resulted in the subduction of the Cocos Plate. The Cocos plate has been subducting under the North American plate along the Middle America Trench located under the Carribean plate which is the major subduction zone, currently one of the largest trenches.The Southern boudary of the Cocos Plate is a mid oceanic ridge that is a divergant boundary. There is an ongoing volcanic belt that extends from Guatemala to Costa Rica caused by the melting of mantle rock to make magma. The volcanic front of the Mexican volcanic belt is located far away from the trench at a distance of 220 km in the West to 450 km in the east along the volcanic belt. Widespread volcanism occurs throughout southern Mexico,in specific along the east trending Mexican volcanic belt. To overcome the problem, there was a propsal of subducting the Cocos Plate to greater depths (Pardo and Suarez,1995) but was proven to be controversial by Velma,2001. (Serranoaims (talk) 17:11, 23 April 2017 (UTC))

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Article : Influence of Rivera-Cocos plate boundary geodynamics on earthquake intensity patterns; the 9 October 1995 (Mw 8.0) and 21 (22) January 2003 (Mw 7.5) earthquakes

Author: VYACHESLAV M. ZOBIN http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.lib.csus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=d9a347a0-1d44-465b-bed9-7406ab75c367%40sessionmgr4010&vid=9&hid=4110(Serranoaims (talk) 19:31, 16 April 2017 (UTC))

Article: Absence of Cocos Plate subduction-related basic volcanism in southern Mexico; a unique case on Earth?

http://geology.gsapubs.org.proxy.lib.csus.edu/content/30/12/1095.full.pdf+html(Serranoaims (talk) 19:46, 16 April 2017 (UTC))

Library Book: Geology of México : celebrating the centenary of the Geological Society México, written by Susana A. Alaniz-ÁlvarezQuartz008 (talk) 03:39, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Article: Shape of the subducted Rivera and Cocos plates in southern Mexico: Seismic and tectonic implications, written by Mario Pardo and Germdo Sufirez http://www.geo.mtu.edu/EHaz/ConvergentPlatesClass/week%204/PardoSuarez95JB00919.pdfQuartz008 (talk) 03:39, 17 April 2017 (UTC)