2007
DOI: 10.1038/nature06035
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Variation in styles of rifting in the Gulf of California

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“…One prediction of this model is that Baja California was translated much further relative to mainland Mexico ($500 km) than the $300 km of motion interpreted by Oskin and Stock [2003] since 6 Ma because of the earlier time of transfer. Recent seismic studies by Lizarralde et al [2007] suggest that Baja California has been translated 350-480 km relative to mainland Mexico through a combination of seafloor spreading and continental extension in the Gulf, which supports the integrated transtension model. Gans' [1997] model also suggested that the Tosco-Abreojos fault never accommodated significant strike-slip motion, which would imply that substantial dextral slip was accommodated in Baja and mainland Mexico.…”
Section: Plate Tectonic Setting Of Extension At Sierra Mazatánmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…One prediction of this model is that Baja California was translated much further relative to mainland Mexico ($500 km) than the $300 km of motion interpreted by Oskin and Stock [2003] since 6 Ma because of the earlier time of transfer. Recent seismic studies by Lizarralde et al [2007] suggest that Baja California has been translated 350-480 km relative to mainland Mexico through a combination of seafloor spreading and continental extension in the Gulf, which supports the integrated transtension model. Gans' [1997] model also suggested that the Tosco-Abreojos fault never accommodated significant strike-slip motion, which would imply that substantial dextral slip was accommodated in Baja and mainland Mexico.…”
Section: Plate Tectonic Setting Of Extension At Sierra Mazatánmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…5), the tomographic maps reflect the crustal structure in the study region. At this period, group velocities in the northern and central Gulf are in general slower than in the southern Gulf, where relatively high velocities are indicative of a relatively thinner crust, as also pointed out from the PESCADOR experiment (Lizarralde et al 2007). We also found low velocities along most of the Baja California Peninsula as well as onshore Sonora, while beneath Sinaloa the group velocities are overall higher.…”
Section: Results: Group Velocity Tomographymentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Crustal deformation in the Gulf varies from classic ridgetransform structures in the south to diffuse deformation in the north, where a large number of shallow small-offset normal faults exist (Persaud et al 2003;Lizarralde et al 2007). Variations in the crustal structure and composition along the Gulf and beneath Baja are found in several studies.…”
Section: G E O L O G I C a L S E T T I N Gmentioning
confidence: 94%
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“…Prominent examples are the Main Ethiopian rift (Corti, 2008), the Levant rift system 10 including the Dead Sea rift (Mart et al, 2005), the Gulf of California rift (Atwater and Stock, 1998;Fletcher et al, 2007) and the Upper Rhine Graben (Bertrand et al, 2005). Structure and kinematics of past rift systems has been studied by surveying obliquely rifted margins (Fournier et al, 2004;Lizarralde et al, 2007;Klimke and Franke, 2016) and transform continental margins (Basile, 2015;Mericer de Lépinay et al, 2016). However, quantifying rift obliquity of a specific rift system through time is more difficult since the syn-rift velocity evolution needs to be reconstructed from available geophysical and 15 geological data sets.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%