1998
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-1951(98)80062-0
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Neotectonic evolution of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (southeastern Mexico)

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“…3; Sanchez-Barreda, 1981). Other seismic reflection data reveal that these continental shelf sediments are cut by WNW-trending normal faults (Sanchez-Barreda, 1981;Barrier et al, 1998). Furthermore, gravity and magnetic contours run parallel to the coast with no offset across the projected trace of the Motagua fault zone: the observed bend in the contours is probably related to the Tehuantepec Ridge ( Fig.…”
Section: Can the Motagua Fault Zone Be Connected With The Acapulco Trmentioning
confidence: 90%
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“…3; Sanchez-Barreda, 1981). Other seismic reflection data reveal that these continental shelf sediments are cut by WNW-trending normal faults (Sanchez-Barreda, 1981;Barrier et al, 1998). Furthermore, gravity and magnetic contours run parallel to the coast with no offset across the projected trace of the Motagua fault zone: the observed bend in the contours is probably related to the Tehuantepec Ridge ( Fig.…”
Section: Can the Motagua Fault Zone Be Connected With The Acapulco Trmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Most workers have assumed that the Motagua fault zone joins the Acapulco Trench at a T-T-F triple point and that the Motagua fault zone is the sinistral, transform boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates (e.g., Anderson and Schmidt, 1983;Pindell et al, 1988;Ross and Scotese, 1988;Guzmán-Speciale et al, 1989;Velez-Scholvink, 1990;Vazquez-Meneses et al, 1992;Schaaf et al, 1995;Barrier et al, 1998;Meschede and Frisch, 2002). In this context, the southeastward migration of the Tertiary magmatism in the Sierra Madre del Sur has been interpreted in terms of the passage of the T-T-T triple junction that accompanied the southeasward displacement of the Chortis block as part of the Caribbean plate (Herrmann et al, 1994;Schaaf et al, 1995).…”
Section: Can the Motagua Fault Zone Be Connected With The Acapulco Trmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a very large tectonic feature that may explain the singularity of this volcano: the Cocos Te huantepec fracture zone, which separates 20 Ma-from 32 Ma-old subducting oceanic crust beneath southern Mexico and the Yucatan block, respectively. The fracture is inter preted to be an inactive linear bathymetric feature of the Cocos plate that is being subducted beneath the Yucatan block (Barrier et aL, 1998). If the trend of the Tehuantepec fracture is projected onto the mainland, El Chich6n lies almost perfectly above it (Fig.…”
Section: Geologic Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Las fallas cenozoicas de desplazamiento principalmente izquierdo reconocidas en el sureste de Oaxaca y en Chiapas, han sido principalmente relacionadas a la evolución reciente del punto triple trinchera-trincheratransforme (Delgado Argote y Carballido Sánchez, 1990;Tolson, 1998;Guzmán Speziale y Meneses Rocha, 2000). Barrier et al (1998) han reconocido, por otra parte, una zona de falla normal del Mioceno-Plioceno con dirección N-S en el Istmo de Tehuantepec que han atribuido a la infl uencia de la subducción de la fractura de Tehuantepec y los cambios en la geometría de la placa subducida. Estos autores atribuyen, además, la extensión N-S más reciente en el Golfo de Tehuantepec a la infl uencia del movimiento hacia el este de la placa del Caribe.…”
Section: Estructura Cortical Y Entorno Tectónicounclassified