A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic

RD Müller, S Zahirovic, SE Williams, J Cannon… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global deep‐time plate motion models have traditionally followed a classical rigid plate
approach, even though plate deformation is known to be significant. Here we present a …

Arc and slab-failure magmatism in Cordilleran batholiths II–The Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern and Baja California

RS Hildebrand, JB Whalen - Geoscience Canada, 2014 - erudit.org
Ever since the late 1960s when Warren Hamilton proposed that the great Cordilleran
batholiths of the western Americas are the roots of volcanic arcs like the Andes and were …

The Catalina Schist: evidence for middle Cretaceous subduction erosion of southwestern North America

M Grove, GE Bebout, CE Jacobson, AP Barth… - 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Catalina Schist underlies the inner southern California borderland of southwestern
North America. On Santa Catalina Island, amphibolite facies rocks that recrystallized and …

Evolution of the Corsica–Sardinia Batholith and late-orogenic shearing of the Variscides

L Casini, S Cuccuru, A Puccini, G Oggiano, P Rossi - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Corsica–Sardinia Batholith formed in the late Carboniferous–Permian along
the northern Gondwana margin. One or more of the following processes may have raised …

Active deformation and shallow structure of the Wagner, Consag, and Delfin basins, northern Gulf of California, Mexico

P Persaud, JM Stock, MS Steckler… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Oblique rifting began synchronously along the length of the Gulf of California at 6 Ma, yet
there is no evidence for the existence of oceanic crust or a spreading transform fault system …

San A ndreas F ault dip, P eninsular R anges mafic lower crust and partial melt in the S alton T rough, S outhern C alifornia, from ambient‐noise tomography

S Barak, SL Klemperer… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We use ambient‐noise tomography to improve CVM‐H11. 9, a community velocity model of
southern California. Our new 3‐D shear‐velocity model with x lateral and 1 km vertical …

Volatile sources, sinks and pathways: a helium‑carbon isotope study of Baja California fluids and gases

PH Barry, R Negrete-Aranda, RM Spelz, AM Seltzer… - Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Baja California Peninsula is located within a complex geodynamic setting,
marked by continental rifting immediately to the east in the Gulf of California, and abundant …

Timing and significance of gabbro emplacement within two distinct plutonic domains of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California

DL Kimbrough, M Grove, DM Morton - Bulletin, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Evaluating the crucial role postulated for mantle-derived mafic magmas in the formation of
silicic batholiths requires well-determined igneous crystallization ages from mafic rocks as …

Lithospheric velocity structure of the Anatolian plateau‐Caucasus‐Caspian region

R Gök, RJ Mellors, E Sandvol… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Anatolian plateau‐Caucasus‐Caspian region is an area of complex lithospheric
structure accompanied by large variations in seismic wave velocities. Despite the complexity …

Surface wave phase velocities of the Western United States from a two-station method

A Foster, G Ekström, M Nettles - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We calculate two-station phase measurements using single-station measurements made on
USArray Transportable Array data for surface waves at periods from 25 to 100 s. The phase …