Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0061-4, published online 12 February 2018.

In the version of this Article originally published, in Fig. 1a the Nicoya Peninsula, Osa Peninsula and Burica Peninsula were incorrectly labelled as the Nicoya Plate, Osa Plate and Burica Plate, respectively. This has been corrected in the online versions.

Fig. 1a
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Original and corrected. The labels have been updated in the corrected version.