Rupturing Continental Lithosphere in the Gulf of California & Salton Trough

Influence of sediment input and plate-motion obliquity on basin development along an active oblique-divergent plate boundary: Gulf of California and Salton Trough

Transtensional basins have formed along the Pacific-North America plate boundary in the Gulf of California and Salton Trough region during Late Cenozoic time. Axial basins occupy a 50–60 kmwide belt along themainplate boundary, and change from sedimentstarved oceanic spreading centers in the south that are oriented perpendicular to long NW-striking transform faults, to oblique N-trending pull-a...

MARGINS Workshop on the Rupturing of Continental Lithosphere in the Northern and Central Red Sea/Gulf of Suez region NSF Proposal

Report on RCL-Cortez Workshop: Lithospheric Rupture in the Gulf of California – Salton Trough Region

From January 9 to 13, 2006, a group of about 70 professional and student researchers gathered at the Hotel Coral in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, to discuss the status of geophysical and geological research in the MARGINS Gulf of California – Salton Trough focus site (Fig. 1). The main goals of the workshop were to summarize emerging new data and results, identify existing gaps in knowledg...

A TOMOORAPHIC IMAGE OF MANTLE STRUCfURE BENEATH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

We determined the variations in seismic structure beneath southern California by using a tomographic method of inversion on teleseismic P delays recorded with the Southern California Array. The algorithm employed was a modified form of an Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) used in medical X-ray imaging. Deconvolution with an empirically estimated point spread function was also used to hel...

A Tomographic Image of Mantle Structure beneath Southern California

We determined the variations in seismic structure beneath southern California by using a tomographic method of inversion on teleseismic P delays recorded with the Southern California Array. The algorithm employed was a modified form of an Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) used in medical X-ray imaging. Deconvolution with an empirically estimated point spread function was also used to hel...