Motion partitioning between the Pacific plate, Baja California and the North America plate: The Tosco-Abreojos fault revisited

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Global Change: Solid Earth, History Of Geophysics: Tectonophysics, Marine Geology And Geophysics: Marine Seismics (0935), Marine Geology And Geophysics: Plate Tectonics (8150, 8155, 8157, 8158), Marine Geology And Geophysics: Seafloor Morphology And Bottom Photography

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During the FAMEX cruise of the R/V L'Atalante (April 2002), swath bathymetry and seismic profiles were recorded along the Baja California margin from 23° to 27°N. The upper-slope of the margin exhibits active faulting of recent sediments along the Tosco-Abreojos fault system (TAFS). Flower structures evidence strike-slip motion along the TAFS. Right lateral strike slip faulting, associated in places with small extensional features, are consistent with present-day slip and extension rates predicted along the TAFS. The TAFS thus belongs to the western active boundary of a Baja California Block yet not totally transferred to the Pacific plate.

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