Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3108604m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 8, CiteID L08604
Physics
Geophysics
6
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
Scientific paper
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.
Bandy William
Bigot-Cormier Florence
Bourgois Jacques
Calmus T.
Chabert A.
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