Banderas Rift Zone: A plausible NW limit of the Jalisco Block

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Oct 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29t..55a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 20, pp. 55-1, CiteID 1994, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016089

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Oceanography: Physical: General Or Miscellaneous, Tectonophysics: Continental Tectonics-Extensional (0905), Tectonophysics: Continental Tectonics-General (0905), Tectonophysics: Plate Boundary-General (3040)

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Echo soundings recently made in Bahía de Banderas show that this region is a graben with steeply dipping walls and several basins; it is the offshore continuation of the Valle de Banderas graben, and of a branching rift (Río Ameca rift) originating in the Tepic-Zacoalco rift zone. The general trend of the three structures is ENE with some NE trending offsets, and they have a total length of 150 km; this Banderas Rift Zone is proposed as the NW limit of the Jalisco block. The existence of this limit suggests that there is another platelet, or block, between the Jalisco block and a portion of the Rivera plate, probably bounded by the Tres Marías escarpment, the Jalisco block and the North America plate.

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