Anthony George Coates
Staff Scientist Emeritus
e-mail: coatesj@hardynet.com
Address: 4193, Lower Cove Run Road
Mathias, WV. 26812, USA
Telephone: 304 897 5022
FAX: 304 897 7703
Publications
Publications by Anthony George Coates in STRI Bibliography
Research Interests
Geological history of the rise of the Central American
Isthmus and its evoutionary and ecological consequences.
Current Research
Education and Degrees
Ph.D. Geology, University of Caen, Calvados, France;
University of London, 1963
B.Sc. (Honours) Geology, Kings College, London University,
London, England, 1958
Selected Bibliography
2004 Coates, A., Collins, L.S., Aubry, M-P., and Berggren,
W.A. The Geology of the Darien, Panama, and the late
Miocene-Pliocene collision of the Panama arc with
northwestern South America.
2003 Coates, A.G., Aubry, M-P., Berggren, W.A., Collins,
L.S., and Kunk, M. Early Neogene history of he Central
American arc from Bocas del Toro, western Panama. Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v.115, p. 271-287.
1999 Collins, L.S and Coates, A.G. (Eds) A Paleobiotic
Survey of Caribbean Faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus
of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology, No. 357,
351pp.
1997 Coates, A.G. (Ed). Central America; A natural and
Cultural History, Yale University Press, Newhaven, 277pp.
1996 Collins, L.S., Budd, A.F., and Coates, A.G. The
earliest evolution asociated with closure of the Tropical
American Seaway. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, v. 93, p. 6069-6072
1996 Collins, L.S., A.G. Coates, W.A. Berggren, M.P. Aubry
and Jijun Zhang. The Late Miocene Panama Isthmian Strait.
Geology, 24(8): 687-690.
1996 Coates, A.G., and J.A. Obando. Geological evolution of
the Central American Isthmus in Jackson, J.B.C., A.F. Budd,
and A.G. Coates (eds.), Evolution and Environment in
Tropical America: University of Chicago Press.
1995 Collins, L.S., A.G. Coates, J.B.C. Jackson, and J.A.
Obando. Timing and rates of emergence of the Limon and Bocas
del Toro basins: Caribbean effects of Cocos Ridge
subduction?, in P. Mann (ed.), Geologic and Tectonic
Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Central
America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 295:
263-289.
1993 Jackson, J.B.C., P. Jung, A.G. Coates, and L.S.
Collins. Diversity and extinction of tropical American
mollusks and emergence of the Isthmus of Panama. Science,
260: 1624-1626.
1992 Coates, A.G., J.B.C. Jackson, L.S. Collins, T.M.
Cronin, H.J. Dowsett, L.M. Bybell, P. Jung, and J.A. Obando.
Closure of the Isthmus of Panama: the near-shore marine
record of Costa Rica and western Panama. Geolical Society of
America Bulletin, v.104, p. 814-828.
1992 Budd, A.F., and A.G. Coates. Non-progressive evolution
in a clade of Cretaceous Montastrea-like corals.
Paleobiology 18(4): 425-445.