A review of the geologic history of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen suggests that at least 1400
km of north-south shortening has been absorbed by the orogen since the onset of the Indo …

The success of plate tectonics required an acceptance of continental drift, and thus a
reinterpretation of the large-scale geological history of most of the Earth. But the basic tenet …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between the overall motion across a zone of
distributed continental deformation and the seismic moment tensors of earthquakes that …

One of the remarkable tectonic features of the Earths crust is the widespread presence of
long, approximately straight and geomorphically prominent strike-slip faults which are a …

We present a new, 3D description of crust and upper mantle velocity structure in southern
California implemented as a Unified Structural Representation (USR). The USR is …

THE convergence of two continents can be accommodated by crustal thickening and by
lateral transport of crust out of the path of the converging continents1–3. The principal …

A finite element method is used to calculate stresses and strain rates in a thin viscous sheet,
representing the continental lithosphere, that is bordered in one part by an indenting …

Most of the structural patterns revealed by bathymetric and magnetic map** of the oceanic
crust west and south of southern California and Baja California are inherited from the time of …

We present updated global plate reconstructions and calculated uncertainties of the Pacific,
Kula, and Farallon/Vancouver plates relative to North America for selected times since 68 …

Abstract During the Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, southern California was impacted by
two anomalous tectonic events:(1) underplating of the oceanic Pelona-Orocopia-Rand …