Low-temperature thermochronology of northern Baja California, Mexico: Decoupled slip-exhumation gradients and delayed onset of oblique rifting across the Gulf of California

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Seiler, Christian ^a   Fletcher, John M ^b   Kohn, Barry P ^a   Gleadow, Andrew J W ^a   Raza, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; BASIN AND RANGE; CALIFORNIA; COOLING RATES; FAULT SURFACES; FINITE DISPLACEMENT; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LATE MIOCENE; LOW TEMPERATURES; ME-XICO; NEO GENES; NORMAL FAULTS; PALEOGENE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSTENSION; VERTICAL DEFLECTIONS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

APATITE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; LOW TEMPERATURE; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOGENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; SLIP; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79958021501     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002649     Document Type: Article

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