Published July 1997
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Journal Article
Reconciliation of San Andreas slip discrepancy by a combination of interior Basin and Range extension and transrotation near the coast
- Creators
- Dickinson, William R.
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Wernicke, Brian P.
Abstract
Measurements of net translation along the Neogene San Andreas transform boundary between Pacific and North American plates, as indicated by the global correlation of sea-floor magnetic anomalies and by total Neogene displacements along strands of the onshore San Andreas fault system, differ by hundreds of kilometres. The apparent motion discrepancy is reconciled for post–mid-Miocene time if both transrotational deformation along the coastal belt of California and basin-range extension east of the Sierra Nevada are taken into account.
Additional Information
© 1997 Geological Society of America. Manuscript received January 10, 1997; Revised manuscript received April 4, 1997; Manuscript accepted April 15, 1997. Partial support for this work was provided by National Science Foundation grant EAR-94-18784 (to Wernicke). We thank the Caltech Geology Club for arranging a seminar at which our respective points of view were pointedly juxtaposed in a way that led us to blend them together. Jim Abbott of SciGraphics in Tucson, Arizona, prepared the figures.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 47434
- DOI
- 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0663:ROSASD>2.3.CO;2
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140723-134650065
- EAR-94-18784
- NSF
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- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences