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Article: Research on geology detailed by J. Funk and co-authors.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- November 18, 2009
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"Lakes Nicaragua and Managua are the two largest lakes in Central America, and they cover a combined area of similar to 9000 km(2) of the presently active Nicaraguan depression and Central America volcanic front. As part of the Subduction Factory focus area of the U.S.," scientists in the United States report.
"National Science ''Margins'' program, similar to 1925 km of shallow geophysical data were acquired over Lakes Nicaragua and Managua in May 2006 to establish their late Quaternary structural and stratigraphic history and to better constrain regional models for active tectonics in western Nicaragua, the Gulf of Fonseca, and the Median Trough in El Salvador. ...