The Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault (California), 2: Pleistocene Records of Near‐Field Transpression Illuminate the Atypical Evolution of the Restraining “Big …

A Moulin, E Cowgill - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With an obliquity of∼ 30° relative to plate motion direction, the∼ 300‐km‐long Big Bend of
the San Andreas Fault is one of the world's largest restraining bends. The 5–6 Ma (∼ 160 …

Importance of groundwater in propagating downward integration of the 6–5 Ma Colorado River system: Geochemistry of springs, travertines, and lacustrine carbonates …

LC Crossey, KE Karlstrom, R Dorsey… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We applied multiple geochemical tracers (87Sr/86Sr,[Sr], δ13C, and δ18O) to waters and
carbonates of the lower Colorado River system to evaluate its paleohydrology over the past …

Focusing of relative plate motion at a continental transform fault: Cenozoic dextral displacement> 700 km on New Zealand's Alpine Fault, reversing> 225 km of Late …

S Lamb, N Mortimer, E Smith… - Geochemistry …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The widely accepted∼ 450 km Cenozoic dextral strike‐slip displacement on New Zealand's
Alpine Fault is large for continental strike‐slip faults, but it is still less than 60% of the …

How fault rocks form and evolve in the shallow San Andreas fault

RT Williams, CD Rowe, K Okamoto… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We document the mechanical and geochemical processes of fault rock development in the
shallow San Andreas fault (Mojave segment), and quantify their importance in sha** the …

The influence of the North Anatolian Fault and a fragmenting slab architecture on upper mantle seismic anisotropy in the eastern Mediterranean

TAJ Merry, ID Bastow, R Kounoudis… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The eastern Mediterranean hosts, within the span of a few hundred kilometers, extensional,
strike‐slip, and collision tectonics above a set of fragmenting subducting slabs. Slab roll …

Insights from low‐temperature thermochronometry into transpressional deformation and crustal exhumation along the San Andreas fault in the western Transverse …

NA Niemi, JT Buscher, JA Spotila, MA House… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The San Emigdio Mountains are an example of an archetypical, transpressional
structural system, bounded to the south by the San Andreas strike‐slip fault, and to the north …

Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China

Y Lu, G Zhu, H Yin, X Wu, S Zhang… - Journal of the Geological …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
It remains unclear whether large-scale polyphase displacement along strike-slip faults is
associated with tip propagation, and how the tip-damage zones of these faults respond to …

[PDF][PDF] Animated tectonic reconstruction of the Lower Colorado River region: Implications for Late Miocene to Present deformation

SEK Bennett, MH Darin, RJ Dorsey… - … along the Lower …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Although the majority of late Miocene to present Pacific–North America plate boundary strain
has been accommodated by faults of the San Andreas and Gulf of California systems …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into post-Miocene uplift of the western margin of the Colorado Plateau from the stratigraphic record of the lower Colorado River

RS Crow, KA Howard, LS Beard… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The spatial and temporal distribution of Pliocene to Holocene Colorado River deposits
(southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico) form a primary data set that records the …

Dynamic upwelling beneath the Salton Trough imaged with teleseismic attenuation tomography

JS Byrnes, M Bezada - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Salton Trough is one of the few regions on Earth where rifting is subaerial
instead of submarine. We use the relative attenuation of teleseismic P phases recorded by …