[PDF][PDF] Tectonic influences on the spatial and temporal evolution of the Walker Lane: An incipient transform fault along the evolving Pacific–North American plate …

JE Faulds, CD Henry, JE Spencer… - Ores and orogenesis …, 2008 - arizonageologicalsoc.org
ABSTRACT Since~ 30 Ma, western North America has been evolving from an Andean type
margin to a dextral transform boundary. Transform growth has been marked by retreat of …

Long‐term fault slip rates, distributed deformation rates, and forecast of seismicity in the western United States from joint fitting of community geologic, geodetic, and …

P Bird - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term average velocity field of the western United States is computed with a
kinematic finite element code. Community data sets include fault traces, geologic offset …

[HTML][HTML] The forearc ophiolites of California formed during trench-parallel spreading: kinematic reconstruction of the western USA Cordillera since the Jurassic

C Arkula, N Lom, J Wakabayashi, G Rea-Downing… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ophiolites, fragments of oceanic lithosphere exposed on land, are typically found as isolated
klippen in intensely deformed fold-thrust belts spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometers …

Timing of exhumation, Wheeler Pass thrust sheet, southern Nevada and California: Late Jurassic to middle Cretaceous evolution of the southern Sevier fold-and-thrust …

MA Giallorenzo, ML Wells, WA Yonkee… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe) thermochronologic data for 46 samples from the Wheeler
Pass thrust sheet, which carries thick passive-margin strata and is discontinuously exposed …

Neotectonics, geodesy, and seismic hazard in the Northern Walker Lane of Western North America: Thirty kilometers of crustal shear and no strike-slip?

SG Wesnousky, JM Bormann, C Kreemer… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Roughly 30km of cumulative right-lateral crustal displacement and 5–6mm/yr of the ongoing
relative right-lateral motion between the Pacific and North American plates are observed in …

Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the timing of extension along the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province and distribution of …

J Lee, DF Stockli, LA Owen, RC Finkel, R Kislitsyn - Tectonics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
New geologic map**, tectonic geomorphologic, 10Be terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide, and
(U‐Th)/He zircon and apatite thermochronometric data provide the first numerical constraints …

Spatiotemporal evolution of fault slip rates in deforming continents: The case of the Great Basin region, northern Basin and Range province

E Pérouse, BP Wernicke - Geosphere, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Compilation and synthesis of neotectonic data from the Great Basin region (western US),
based on 173 published studies for 171 faults across the region, offer an unprecedented …

Birth of a plate boundary at ca. 12 Ma in the Ancestral Cascades arc, Walker Lane belt of California and Nevada

CJ Busby - Geosphere, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Walker Lane belt of eastern California and western Nevada is the northernmost
extension of the Gulf of California transtensional rift, where the process of continental rupture …

Accommodation of plate motion in an incipient strike‐slip system: The central Walker Lane

IKD Pierce, SG Wesnousky, LA Owen, JM Bormann… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geodesy shows that∼ 7 mm/yr of dextral shear is accumulating across the Central Walker
Lane in the absence of through‐going strike‐slip faults. To better understand how this shear …

Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone

KL Frankel, AF Glazner, E Kirby, FC Monastero… - 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The eastern California shear zone is an important component of the Pacific–North America
plate boundary. This region of active, predominantly strike-slip, deformation east of the San …