1. Allan, J. F. (1986). Geology of the Northern Colima and Zacoalco Grabens, southwest Mexico: Late Cenozoic rifting in the Mexican Volcanic Belt. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97, 473–485.
2. Allan, J. F., Nelson, S. A., Luhr, J. F., Charmichael, I. S. E., Wopat, M., Wallace, P. J. (1991). Pliocene-Holocene rifting and associated volcanism in southwest Mexico: An exotic terrane in the making. In J. Dauphin & B. Simoneit (Eds.), The Gulf and Peninsular Provinces of the Californias, AAPG Memoir 47 (pp. 425–445). American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Tulsa.
3. Alvarez, R., & Yutsis, V. (2015). The elusive Rivera-Cocos plate boundary: not diffuse. In T. J. Wright, A. Ayele, D. J. Ferguson, T. Kidane, & C. Vye-Brown (Eds.), Magmatic Rifting and Active Volcanism (vol 420). Geological Society: London.
4. Atwater, T. M., & Stock, J. (1998). Pacific–North America plate tectonics of the Neogene south western United States: An update. International Geology Review,
40, 375–402.
5. Bandy, W.L. (1992). Geological and geophysical investigation of the Rivera Cocos plate boundary: Implications for plate fragmentation, Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station, p. 195.