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The centralamerican country Costa Rica is located in a tectonically active area with interactions between the Cocos an Caribbean plate and the so-called Panama Block (see Fig. 1). The project CorBas (Niemeier et al, 1990) was inaugurated to develop a geodetic network for Costa Rica by use at the Global Positioning System (GPS). Repeated measurements of this network should provide direct information on actual plate motions and intraplate deformations.
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Niemeier, W.W. et al. (1993). The Project Corbas — Determination of Recent Crustal Movements in Costa Rica. In: Torge, W., Fletcher, A.G., Tanner, J.G. (eds) Recent Geodetic and Gravimetric Research in Latin America. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88055-1_12
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