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Published August 2011 | public
Journal Article

Constraints on Jalisco Block Motion and Tectonics of the Guadalajara Triple Junction from 1998–2001 Campaign GPS Data

Abstract

A GPS campaign network in the state of Jalisco was occupied for ~36 h per station most years between 1995 and 2005; we use data from 1998–2001 to investigate tectonic motion and interseismic deformation in the Jalisco area with respect to the North America plate. The twelve stations used in this analysis provide coverage of the Jalisco Block and adjacent North America plate, and show a pattern of motion that implies some contribution to Jalisco Block boundary deformation from both tectonic motion and interseismic deformation due to the offshore 1995 earthquake. The consistent direction and magnitude of station motion on the Jalisco Block with respect to the North America reference frame, ~2 mm/year to the southwest (95% confidence level), perhaps can be attributed to tectonic motion. However, some station velocities within and across the boundaries of the Jalisco Block are also non-zero (95% confidence level), and the overall pattern of station velocities indicates both viscoelastic response to the 1995 earthquake and partial coupling of the subduction interface (together termed "interseismic deformation"). Our results show motion across the northern Colima rift, the eastern boundary of the Jalisco Block, which is likely to be sinistral oblique extension rather than pure extension. We constrain extension across both the Colima rift and the northeastern boundary of the Jalisco Block, the Tepic- Zacoalco rift, to ≤8 mm/year (95% confidence level), slow compared to relative rates of motion at nearby plate boundaries.

Additional Information

© 2011 Springer Basel AG. Received February 10, 2010, revised July 10, 2010, accepted September 28, 2010, Published online November 9, 2010. We would like to thank Jeff Genrich and Tom Herring for helpful discussions. Support for this research was provided by National Science Foundation grants EAR-0510395 (J. Stock) and EAR-0510553 (C. DeMets).

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