Active deformation and shallow structure of the Wagner, Consag, and Delfín Basins, northern Gulf of California, Mexico

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Persaud, Patricia ^a   Stock, Joann M ^a   Steckler, Michael S ^b   Martín Barajas, Arturo ^c   Diebold, John B ^b   González Fernández, Antonio ^c   Mountain, Gregory S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Distributed deformation; Northern Gulf of California; Oblique rifting; Reflection seismic data; Sonobuoy refraction data

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; OBLIQUE FAULT; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

CONSAG BASIN; DELFIN BASIN; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; WAGNER BASIN;

EID: 0142259774     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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