Geology and tectonics of the Baja California peninsula and adjacent areas

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 374, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-42

  Sedlock, Richard L ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baja California; Gulf of California; Paleomagnetism; Tectonic history

Indexed keywords

FACSIMILE; GEOMAGNETISM;

BAJA CALIFORNIA; GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PALEOMAGNETISM; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TECTONIC HISTORY;

TECTONICS;

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARIZONA; BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SAN DIEGO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870879124     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2374-4.1     Document Type: Article

References (274)

1. Ague, J.J., and Brandon, M.T., 1992, Tilt and northward offset of Cordilleran batholiths resolved using igneous bathymetry: Nature, v. 360, p. 146-149. (Pubitemid 23386678)
2. Ague, J.J., and Brimhall, G.H., 1989, Magmatic arc asymmetry and distribution of anomalous plutonic belts in the batholiths of California: Effects of assimilation, crustal thickness, and depth of crystallization: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 912-927.
3. Aguirre-Díaz, G.J., and McDowell, F.W., 1993, Nature and timing of faulting and synextensional magmatism in the southern Basin and Range, central- eastern Durango, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 1435-1444. (Pubitemid 24421464)
4. Allison, E.C., 1955, Middle Cretaceous gastropoda from Punta China, Baja California, México: Journal of Paleontology, v. 29, p. 400-432.
5. Allison, E.C., 1974, The type Alisitos Formation (Cretaceous, Aptian-Albian) of Baja California and its bivalve fauna, Geology of Peninsular California, Pacific Sections, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Minerologists, and Society of Economic Geologists, p. 20-59.
6. Anderson, P.V., 1993, Prebatholithic stratigraphy of the San Felipe area, Baja California norte, México, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of Peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 1-10. (Pubitemid 24421259)
7. Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T., 1979, The role of the Mojave-Sonora Megashear in the tectonic evolution of northern Sonora, in Roldán- Quintana, J., ed., Geology of northern Sonora: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook: Institute of Geology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, p. 59-68.
8. Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T., 1981, An overview of Precambrian rocks in Sonora, México: Revista del Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, v. 5, p. 131-139.
9. Aranda-Gómez, J.J., and Pérez-Venzor, J.A., 1989, Estratigrafía del complejo cristalino de la región de Todos Santos, Estado de Baja California Sur: Revista del Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, v. 8, p. 149-170.
10. Ashby, J.R., 1989, A résumé of the Miocene stratigraphic history of the Rosarito Beach basin, northwestern Baja California, México, in Abbott, P.L., ed., Geologic studies in Baja California: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 63, p. 27-36.
11. Atwater, T., 1989, Plate tectonic history of the northeast Pacific and western North America, in Decker, R.W., ed., Decade of North American geology: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 21-72.
12. Atwater, T., and Stock, J., 1998, Implications of recent refinements in Pacific- North America plate tectonic reconstructions: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 79, p. 206.
13. Avé Lallemant, H.G., and Oldow, J.S., 1988, Early Mesozoic southward migration of Cordilleran transpressional terranes: Tectonics, v. 7, p. 1057-1075.
14. Axen, G., 1995, Extensional segmentation of the Main Gulf Escarpment, México and United States: Geology, v. 23, p. 515-518.
15. Axen, G.J., 1999, Strain partitioning among low-angle normal faults, strikeslip faults, and incipient spreading centers, northern Gulf of California, Mexico and Salton Trough, California [abs.]: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 80, p. S340.
16. Axen, G.J., and Fletcher, J.M., 1998, Late Miocene-Pleistocene extensional faulting, northern Gulf of California, Mexico and Salton Trough, California: International Geology Review, v. 40, p. 217-244.
17. Axen, G.J., Grove, M., Stockli, D., Lovera, O.M., Rothstein, D.A., Fletcher, J.M., Farley, K., and Abbott, P.L., 2000, Thermal evolution of Monte Blanco dome: Low-angle normal faulting during Gulf of California rifting and late Eocene denudation of the eastern Peninsular Ranges: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 197-212. (Pubitemid 32329162)
18. Axen, G.J., Taylor, W.J., and Bartley, J.M., 1993, Space-time patterns and tectonic controls of Tertiary extension and magmatism in the Great Basin of the western United States: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 56-76. (Pubitemid 23388498)
19. Balch, D.C., Bartling, S.H., and Abbott, P.L., 1984, Volcaniclastic strata of the Upper Jurassic Santiago Peak Volcanics, San Diego, California, in Bachman, S.B., ed., Tectonics and sedimentation along the California margin: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 157-170.
20. Baldwin, S.L., and Harrison, T.M., 1989, Geochronology of blueschists from west-central Baja California and the timing of uplift of subduction complexes: Journal of Geology, v. 97, p. 149-163.
21. Baldwin, S.L., and Harrison, T.M., 1992, The P-T-t history of blocks in serpentinite- matrix mélange, west-central Baja California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, p. 18-31.
22. Bannon, J.L., Bottjer, D.J., Lund, S.P., and Saul, L.R., 1989, Campanian/ Maastrichtian stage boundary in southern California: Resolution and implications for large-scale depositional patterns: Geology, v. 17, p. 80-83.
23. Barth, A.P., and Schneiderman, J.S., 1996, A comparison of structures in the Andean orogen of northern Chile and exhumation structures in southern California: An analogy in tectonic style: International Geology Review, v. 38, p. 1075-1085.
24. Barthelmy, D.A., 1979, Regional geology of the El Arco porphyry copper deposit, Baja California, in Gastil, R.G., ed., Baja California geology: San Diego, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, p. 127-138.
25. Bartling, W.A., and Abbott, P.L., 1984, Upper Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonics with reference to the Eocene, San Miguel Island and San Diego area, California, in Abbott, P.L., ed., Upper Cretaceous depositional systems, southern California-Northern Baja California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 36, p. 85-102.
26. Bartolini, C., Damon, P., Shafiqullah, M., and Morales, M., 1994, Geochronologic contributions to the Tertiary sedimentary-volcanic sequences ("Baucarit Formation") in Sonora, Mexico: Geofísica Internacional, v. 33, p. 67-77.
27. Batiza, R., 1978, Geology, petrology and geochemistry of Isla Tortuga, a recent tholeiitic island in the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 89, p. 1309-1324.
28. Beck, M.E., Jr., 1980, Paleomagnetic record of plate-margin tectonic processes along the western edge of North America: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 85, p. 7115-7131.
29. Beck, M.E., Jr., 1989, Paleomagnetism of continental North America: Implications for displacement of crustal blocks within the western Cordillera, Baja California to British Columbia, in Mooney, W.D., ed., Geophysical framework of the continental United States: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 172, p. 471-492.
30. Beck, M.E., Jr., 1992, Some thermal and paleomagnetic consequences of tilting a batholith: Tectonics, v. 11, p. 297-303.
31. Bigioggero, B., Chiesa, S., Zanchi, A., Montrasio, A., and Vezzoli, L., 1995, The Cerro Mencenares volcanic center, Baja California Sur: Source and tectonic control on postsubduction magmatism within the gulf rift: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 1108-1122. (Pubitemid 26456388)
32. Blake, M.C., Jr., Jayko, A.S., Moore, T.E., Chavez, V., Saleeby, J.B., and Seel, K., 1984, Tectonostratigraphic terranes of Magdalena Island, Baja California Sur, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California peninsula: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 183-191.
33. Boehlke, J.E., and Abbott, P.L., 1986, Punta Baja Formation, a Campanian submarine canyon fill, Baja California, México, in Abbott, P.L., ed., Cretaceous stratigraphy western North America: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 46, p. 91-101.
34. Bohannon, R.G., and Parsons, T., 1995, Tectonic implications of post-30 Ma Pacific and North American relative plate motions: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 937-959. (Pubitemid 26455709)
35. Böhnel, H., and Delgado-Argote, L.A., 2000, Paleomagnetic data from northern Baja California (Mexico): Results from the Cretaceous San Telmo batholith, in Stock, J.M., ed., Cenozoic tectonics and volcanism of Mexico: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 334, p. 157-165.
36. Böhnel, H., Delgado-Argote, L.A., and Kimbrough, D.L., 2002, Discordant paleomagnetic data for middle-Cretaceous intrusive rocks from northern Baja California: Latitude displacement, tilt, or vertical axis rotation?: Tectonics, v. 21, no. 5, DOI 10.1029/2001TC001298.
37. Bonini, J.A., and Baldwin, S.L., 1994, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of accreted terranes from southwestern Baja California Sur, in U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 34.
38. Bonini, J.A., and Baldwin, S.L., 1998, Mesozoic metamorphic and middle to late Tertiary magmatic events on Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Baja California continental borderland: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1094-1104. (Pubitemid 28560720)
39. Bottjer, D.J., and Link, M.H., 1984, A synthesis of Late Cretaceous southern California and northern Baja California paleogeography, in Bachman, S.B., ed., Tectonics and sedimentation along the California margin: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 171-188.
40. Buch, I.P., and Delattre, M.P., 1993, Permian and Lower Triassic stratigraphy along the 30th parallel, eastern Baja California Norte, México, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of Peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 77-90. (Pubitemid 24421280)
41. Burchfiel, B.C., and Davis, G.A., 1981, Mojave Desert and environs, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume I): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 217-252.
42. Busby, C., Smith, D., Morris, W., and Fackler-Adams, B., 1998, Evolutionary model for convergent margins facing large ocean basins: Mesozoic Baja California, México: Geology, v. 26, p. 227-230.
43. Bushee, J., Holden, J., Geyer, B., and Gastil, R.G., 1963, Lead-alpha dates for some basement rocks of southwestern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 74, p. 803-806.
44. Butler, R.F., and Dickinson, W.R., 1995, Comment: "Shallow magnetic inclinations in the Cretaceous Valle Group, Baja California: remagnetization, compaction, or terrane translation?": Tectonics, v. 14, p. 218-222.
45. Butler, R.F., Dickinson, W.R., and Gehrels, G.E., 1991, Paleomagnetism of coastal California and Baja California: Alternatives to large-scale northward transport: Tectonics, v. 10, p. 561-576.
46. Cabanes, N., and Mercier, J.-C.C., 1988, Insight into the upper mantle beneath an active extensional zone: The spinel-peridotite xenoliths from San Quintín (Baja California, Mexico): Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 100, p. 374-382.
47. Cabral-Cano, E., Lang, H.R., and Harrison, C.G.A., 2000, Stratigraphic assessment of the Arcelia-Teloloapan area, southern Mexico: Implications for southern Mexico's post-Neocomian tectonic evolution: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 13, p. 443-457. (Pubitemid 32062899)
48. Carrasco, A.P., Kimbrough, D.L., Herzig, C.T., and Meeth, G.L., 1993, Discovery of accretionary lapilli in the Santiago Peak Volcanics of southern and Baja California, in Rendina, M.A., ed., Geologic investigations in Baja California: Santa Ana, California, South Coat Geological Society, p. 145.
49. Carrasco, A.P., Kimbrough, D.L., and Herzig, C.T., 1995, Cretaceous arcvolcanic strata of the western Peninsular Ranges: Comparison of the Santiago Peak Volcanics and Alisitos Group, in III International Meeting on Geology of the Baja California Peninsula: La Paz, México, Peninsular Geological Society, p. 19.
50. Carreño, A.L., 1985, Biostratigraphy of the late Miocene to Pliocene on the Pacific Island Maria Madre, Mexico: Micropaleontology, v. 31, p. 139-166. (Pubitemid 16299794)
51. Carrillo-Chávez, A., 1992, San Pedro mylonitic gneiss, southern Baja California peninsula: The southernmost and oldest of the Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 5, p. 13.
52. Chadwick, B., 1987, The geology, petrography, geochemistry, and geochronology of the Tres Hermanos-Santa Clara region, Baja California, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: San Diego State University, 601 p.
53. Cochemé, J.-J., and Demant, A., 1991, Geology of the Yécora area, northern Sierra Madre Occidental, México, in Jacques-Ayala, C., ed., Studies of Sonoran geology: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 254, p. 81-94.
54. Coney, P.J., and Campa, M.F., 1987, Lithotectonic terrane map of Mexico (west of the 91st meridian): U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1874-D, scale 1:2,500,000, 1 sheet.
55. Coney, P.J., and Harms, T.A., 1984, Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes: Cenozoic extensional relics of Mesozoic compression: Geology, v. 12, p. 550-554.
56. Coney, P.J., and Reynolds, S.J., 1977, Cordilleran Benioff zones: Nature, v. 270, p. 403-406.
57. Couch, R.W., Ness, G.E., Sanchez-Zamora, O., Calderón-Riveroll, G., Doguin, P., Plawman, T., Coperude, S., Huehn, B., and Gumma, W., 1991, Gravity anomalies and crustal structure of the Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 25-45.
58. Cowan, D.S., Brandon, M.T., and Garver, J.I., 1997, Geologic tests of hypotheses for large coastwise displacements-A critique illustrated by the Baja British Columbia controversy: American Journal of Science, v. 297, p. 117-173.
59. Criscione, J.J., Davis, T.E., and Ehlig, P., 1978, The age of sedimentation/ diagenesis for the Bedford Canyon Formation and the Santa Monica Formation in southern California: A Rb/Sr evaluation, in McDougall, K., ed., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Mineralogists and Paleontologists, p. 385-396.
60. Cunningham, A.B., and Abbott, P.L., 1986, Sedimentology and provenance of the Upper Cretaceous Rosario Formation south of Ensenada, Baja California, México, in Abbott, P.L., ed., Cretaceous stratigraphy western North America: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 103-118.
61. Damon, P.E., Shafiqullah, M., and Clark, K.F., 1983, Geochronology of the porphyry copper deposits and related mineralization of México: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 20, p. 1052-1071.
62. Davis, T.E., and Gastil, R.G., 1993, Whole-rock Rb/Sr isochrons of finegrained clastic rocks in Peninsular California, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 157-158.
63. Dean, M.A., 1996, Neogene Fish Creek Gypsum and associated stratigraphy and paleontology, southwestern Salton Trough, California, in Seymour, D.C., ed., Annual Field Trip Guidebook 24: San Diego, California, South Coast Geological Society, p. 123-148.
64. Delgado-Argote, L.A., and García-Abdeslem, J., 1999, Shallow Miocene basaltic magma reservoirs in the Bahí de los Angeles basin, Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 88, p. 29-46. (Pubitemid 29430833)
65. Demant, A., 1981, Plio-Quaternary volcanism of the Santa Rosalía area, Baja California, México, in Roldán-Quintana, J., ed., Geology of northwestern México and southern Arizona: Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Estación Regional del Noreste, p. 295-307.
66. DeMets, C., 1995, A reappraisal of seafloor spreading lineations in the Gulf of California: Implications for the transfer of Baja California to the Pacific plate and estimates of Pacific-North America motion: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 22, p. 3545-3548. (Pubitemid 26462242)
67. Dickinson, W.R., 1996, Kinematics of transrotational tectonism in the California Transverse Ranges and its contribution to cumulative slip along the San Andreas transform fault system: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 305, 46 p.
68. Dickinson, W.R., and Butler, R.F., 1998, Coastal and Baja California paleomagnetism reconsidered: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1268-1280. (Pubitemid 29147785)
69. Dickinson, W.R., and Lawton, T.F., 2001, Carboniferous to Cretaceous assembly and fragmentation of Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1142-1160. (Pubitemid 33073269)
70. Dickerson, P.W., and Muehlberger, W.R., 1994, Basins in the Big Bend segment of the Rio Grande rift, in Kather, S.M., ed., Basins of the Rio Grande rift: Structure, stratigraphy, and tectonic setting: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 291, p. 283-297.
71. Dixon, T., Decaix, J., Farina, F., Furlong, K., Malservisi, R., Bennett, R., Suarez-Vidal, F., Fletcher, J., and Lee, J., 2003, Seismic cycle and rheological effects on estimation of present-day slip rates for the Agua Blanca and San Miguel-Vallecitos faults, northern Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI 10.1029/2000JB000099.
72. Dokka, R.K., and Merriam, R.H., 1982, Late Cenozoic extension of northeastern Baja California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 371-378.
73. Dorsey, R.J., Umhoefer, P.J., Ingle, J., and Mayer, L., 2001, Late Miocene to Pliocene stratigraphic evolution of northeast Carmen Island, Gulf of California: Implications for oblique-rifting tectonics: Sedimentary Geology, v. 144, p. 97-123. (Pubitemid 33053308)
74. Elías-Herrera, M., and Ortega-Gutiérrez, F., 1998, The Early Cretaceous Arperos oceanic basin (western Mexico). Geochemical evidence for an aseismic ridge formed near a spreading center-Comment: Tectonophysics, v. 292, p. 321-326. (Pubitemid 128445547)
75. Elías-Herrera, M., Sánchez-Zavala, J.L., and Macias-Romo, C., 2000, Geologic and geochronologic data from the Guerrero terrane in the Tejupilco area, southern Mexico: New constraints on its tectonic interpretation: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 13, p. 355-375. (Pubitemid 32062893)
76. Engebretson, D.C., Cox, A., and Gordon, R.G., 1985, Relative motions between oceanic and continental plates in the Pacific Basin: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 206, p. 64 p.
77. Fabriol, H., Delgado-Argote, L.A., Dañobeitia, J.J., Córdoba, D., González, A., García-Abdeslem, J., Bartolomé, R., Martín-Ateinza, B., and Frias Camacho, V., 1999, Backscattering and geophysical features of volcanic ridges offshore Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Gulf of California, Mexico: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 93, p. 75-92. (Pubitemid 30116016)
78. Fenby, S.S., and Gastil, R.G., 1991, Geologic-tectonic map of the Gulf of California and surrounding areas, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 79-83.
79. Ferrari, L., 1995, Miocene shearing along the northern boundary of the Jalisco block and the opening of the southern Gulf of California: Geology, v. 23, p. 751-754. (Pubitemid 26455693)
80. Ferrari, L., López-Martínez, M., Aguirre-Díaz, G., and Carrasco-Nuñez, G., 1999, Space-time patterns of Cenozoic arc volcanism in central México: From the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexican Volcanic Belt: Geology, v. 27, p. 303-306. (Pubitemid 29384848)
81. Ferrari, L., López-Martínez, M., and Rosas-Elguera, J., 2002, Ignimbrite flareup and deformation in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental, western Mexico: Implications for the late subduction history of the Farallon plate: Tectonics, v. 21, no. 4, DOI 10.1029/2001TC001302.
82. Filmer, P.E., and Kirschvink, J.L., 1989, A paleomagnetic constraint on the Late Cretaceous paleoposition of northwestern Baja California, México: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 7332-7342.
83. Fletcher, J.M., and Munguía, L., 2000, Active continental rifting in southern Baja California, Mexico: Implications for plate motion partitioning and the transition to seafloor spreading in the Gulf of California: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 1107-1123. (Pubitemid 32296303)
84. Fletcher, J.M., Kohn, B.P., Foster, D.A., and Gleadon, A.J.W., 2000, Heterogeneous Neogene cooling and exhumation of the Los Cabos block, southern Baja California: Evidence from fission-track thermochronology: Geology, v. 28, p. 107-110. (Pubitemid 32836114)
85. Flynn, J.J., Cipolletti, R.M., and Novacek, M.J., 1989, Chronology of early Eocene marine and terrestrial strata, Baja California, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 1182-1196.
86. Freydier, C., Martínez-R, J., Lapierre, H., Tardy, M., and Coulon, C., 1996, The Early Cretaceous Arperos oceanic basin (western México): Geochemical evidence for an aseismic ridge formed near a spreading center: Tectonophysics, v. 259, p. 343-367.
87. Freydier, C., Lapierre, H., Tardy, M., Martínez-R, J., and Coulon, C., 2000, The Early Cretaceous Arperos basin: An oceanic domain dividing the Guerrero arc from nuclear Mexico evidenced by the geochemistry of the lavas and sediments: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 13, p. 325-336. (Pubitemid 32062891)
88. Fuis, G.S., Mooney, W.D., Healy, J.H., McMechan, G.A., and Lutter, W.J., 1984, A seismic refraction survey of the Imperial Valley region, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 1165-1189. (Pubitemid 14549527)
89. Gans, P.B., 1997, Large-magnitude Oligo-Miocene extension in southern Sonora: Implications for the tectonic evolution of western México: Tectonics, v. 16, p. 388-408.
90. Gastil, R.G., 1968, Fault systems in northern Baja California and their relation to the origin of the Gulf of California: Stanford, Stanford University Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 11, p. 283-286.
91. Gastil, R.G., 1983, Mesozoic and Cenozoic granitic rocks of southern California and western México: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 159, p. 265-275.
92. Gastil, R.G., 1985, Terranes of peninsular California and adjacent Sonora, in Howell, D.G., ed., Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Circum-Pacific region: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series 1, p. 273-283.
93. Gastil, G., 1991, Is there a Oaxaca-California megashear? Conflict between paleomagnetic data and other elements of geology: Geology, v. 19, p. 502-505.
94. Gastil, R.G., 1993, Prebatholithic history of Peninsular California, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of Peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 145-156.
95. Gastil, R.G., and Girty, M.S., 1993, A reconnaissance U-Pb study of detrital zircon in sandstones of Peninsular California and adjacent areas, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of Peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 135-144.
96. Gastil, R.G., and Krummenacher, D., 1977a, Reconnaissance geological map of coastal Sonora between Puerto Lobos and Bahía Kino: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series MC-16, scale 1:150,000, 1 sheet.
97. Gastil, R.G., and Krummenacher, D., 1977b, Reconnaissance geology of coastal Sonora between Puerto Lobos and Bahía Kino: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 88, p. 189-198.
98. Gastil, R.G., and Miller, R.H., 1981, Lower Paleozoic strata on the Pacific plate of North America: Nature, v. 292, p. 828-830.
99. Gastil, R.G., and Miller, R.H., 1983, Pre-batholithic terranes of southern and peninsular California, U.S.A. and México: Status report, in Stevens, C.H., ed., Pre-Jurassic rocks in western North American suspect terranes: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 49-61.
100. Gastil, R.G., and Miller, R.H, 1984, Prebatholithic paleogeography of peninsular California and adjacent México, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California peninsula: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 9-16.
101. Gastil, R.G., and Miller, R.H., editors, 1993, The prebatholithic stratigraphy of Peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, 163 p.
102. Gastil, R.G., Phillips, R.P., and Allison, E.C., 1975, Reconnaissance geology of the state of Baja California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 140, 170 p.
103. Gastil, G., Krummenacher, D., and Jensky, W.A., II, 1978, Reconnaissance geology of west-central Nayarit, México: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series MC-24, scale 1:200,000, 1 sheet, 8 p.
104. Gastil, R.G., Krummenacher, D., and Minch, J., 1979, The record of Cenozoic volcanism around the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 90, p. 839-857.
105. Gastil, R.G., Morgan, G.J., and Krummenacher, D., 1981, The tectonic history of peninsular California and adjacent México, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume I): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 284-306.
106. Gastil, G., Kimbrough, J., Tainosho, Y., Shimizu, M., and Gunn, S., 1991a, Plutons of the eastern Peninsular Ranges, southern California, USA, and Baja California, México, in Hanan, B.B., ed., Geological excursions in southern California and México, in Guidebook for the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America: San Diego, California, Geological Society of America, p. 319-331.
107. Gastil, R.G., Miller, R., Anderson, P., Crocker, J., Campbell, M., Buch, P., Lothringer, C., Leier Englehardt, P., DeLattre, M., Hoobs, J., and Roldán- Quintana, J., 1991b, The relation between the Paleozoic strata on opposite sides of the Gulf of California, in Jacques-Ayala, C., ed., Studies of Sonoran geology: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 254, p. 7-18.
108. Gastil, R.G., Neuhaus, J., Cassidy, M., Smith, J.T., Ingle, J.C., and Krummenacher, D., 1999, Geology and paleontology of southwestern Isla Tiburón, Sonora, Mexico: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 16, p. 1-34.
109. Gehrels, G.E., Stewart, J.H., and Kenter, K.B., 2002, Cordilleran-margin quartzites in Baja California-Implications for tectonic transport: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 199, no. 1-2, p. 201-210. (Pubitemid 34641997)
110. Girty, G.H., Thomson, C.N., Girty, M.S., Miller, J., and Bracchi, K., 1993, The Cuyamaca-Laguna Mountains shear zone, Late Jurassic plutonic rocks and Early Cretaceous extension, Peninsular Ranges, southern California, in Rendina, M.A., ed., Geologic investigations in Baja California, México, Annual Field Trip Guidebook 21: Santa Ana, California, South Coast Geological Society, p. 173-180.
111. Gordon, R.G., 1990, Test for bias in paleomagnetically determined paleolatitudes from Pacific plate Deep Sea Drilling Project sediments: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, p. 8397-8404.
112. Grant, L.B., and Rockwell, T.K., 2002, A northward-propogating earthquake sequence in coastal southern California?: Seismological Research Letters, v. 73, p. 461-469.
113. Griffith, R., and Hoobs, J., 1993, Geology of the southern Sierra Calamajué, Baja California Norte, México, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 43-60. (Pubitemid 24421287)
114. Grimm, K.A., 1999, Stratigraphic condensation and the redeposition of economic phosphorite: Allostratigraphy of Oligo-Miocene shelfal sediments, Baja California Sur, Mexico, in Lucas, J., ed., Marine authigenesis: From microbial to global: Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Special Publication 64, p. 325-347.
115. Gutmann, J.T., Turrin, B.D., and Dohrenwend, J.C., 2000, Basalt rock from the Pinacate volcanic field yields notably young 40Ar/39 Ar ages: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 81, p. 33.
116. Hagstrum, J.T., and Sedlock, R.L., 1990, Remagnetization and northward translation of Mesozoic red chert from Cedros Island and the San Benito Islands, Baja California, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 983-991.
117. Hagstrum, J.T., and Sedlock, R.L., 1992, Paleomagnetism of Mesozoic red chert from Cedros Island and the San Benito Islands, Baja California, Mexico, revisited: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 19, p. 329-332.
118. Hagstrum, J.T., McWilliams, M., Howell, D.G., and Gromme, C.S., 1985, Mesozoic paleomagnetism and northward translation of the Baja California peninsula: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 1077-1090.
119. Hagstrum, J.T., Sawlan, M.G., Hausback, B.P., Smith, J.G., and Gromme, C.S., 1987, Miocene paleomagnetism and tectonic setting of the Baja California peninsula, México: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 92, p. 2627-2640.
120. Hardy, L.R., 1981, Geology of the central Sierra de Santa Rosa, Sonora Mexico, in Roldán-Quintana, J., ed., Geology of northwestern México and southern Arizona: Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Estación Regional del Noreste, p. 73-98.
121. Hausback, B.P., 1984, Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic evolution of Baja California Sur, México, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California peninsula: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 219-236.
122. Hausback, B.P., Stock, J.M., Dmochowski, J.E., Farrar, C.D., Fowler, S.J., Sutter, K., Verke, P., and Winant, C.D., 2000, To be or not to be a caldera- La Reforma caldera, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. A502.
123. Hausback, B.P., Cook, A., Farrar, C.D., Giambastiani, M., Martin, A., Paz-Moreno, F., Stock, J., and Dmochowski, J.E., 2003, Isla San Luis volcano, Baja California, Mexico-Late Holocene eruptions: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 4, p. 29.
124. Heim, A., 1922, Notes on the Tertiary of southern Lower California: Geological Magazine, v. 59, p. 529-547.
125. Helenes, J., 1984, Dinoflagellates from Cretaceous to Early Tertiary rocks of the Sebastian Vizcaíno basin, Baja California, Mexico, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California peninsula: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 89-106.
126. Helenes, J., and Carreño, A.L., 1999, Neogene sedimentary evolution of Baja California in relation to regional tectonics: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 12, p. 589-605. (Pubitemid 30138460)
127. Henry, C.D., 1989, Late Cenozoic Basin and Range structure in western México adjacent to the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 1147-1156.
128. Henry, C.D., and Aranda-Gómez, J.J., 1992, The real southern Basin and Range: Mid- to late Cenozoic extension in México: Geology, v. 20, p. 701-704.
129. Henry, C., and Aranda-Gómez, J., 2000, Plate interactions control middle-late Miocene, proto-Gulf and Basin and Range extension in the southern Basin and Range: Tectonophysics, v. 318, p. 1-26. (Pubitemid 30309151)
130. Henry, C.D., and Fredrikson, G., 1987, Geology of part of southern Sinaloa, México adjacent to the Gulf of California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series MCH063, scale 1:250,000, 1 sheet, 14 p.
131. Hirabayashi, C.K., Rockwell, T.K., Wesnousky, S.G., Stirling, M.W., and Suarez-Vidal, F., 1996, A neotectonic study of the San Miguel-Vallecitos fault, Baja California, México: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, p. 1770-1783.
132. Howell, D.G., Jones, D.L., and Schermer, E.R., 1985, Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Circum-Pacific region, in Howell, D.G., ed., Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Circum-Pacific region: Houston, Texas, Circum- Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series 1, p. 3-30.
133. Hudson, F.S., 1922, Geology of the Cuyamaca region of California: California University Department Geological Science Bulletin, v. 13, p. 175-223.
134. Imlay, R.W., 1963, Jurassic fossils from southern California: Journal of Paleontology, v. 37, p. 97-107.
135. Imlay, R.W., 1965, Jurassic marine faunal differentiation in North America: Journal of Paleontology, v. 39, p. 1023-1038.
136. Jackson, M.J., Banerjee, S.K., Marvin, J.A., Lu, R., and Gruber, W., 1991, Detrital remanence inclination errors and anhysteretic remanence anisotropy: Quantitative model and experimental results: Geophysical Journal International, v. 104, p. 95-103.
137. James, E.W., 1986, Pre-Tertiary palegeography along the northern San Andreas fault: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 67, p. 1215.
138. Johnson, M.E., and Hayes, M.L., 1993, Dichotomous facies on a Late Cretaceous rocky island as related to wind and wave patterns (Baja California, México): Palaios, v. 8, p. 385-395. (Pubitemid 24394746)
139. Johnson, M.E., and Ledesma-Vazquez, J., 2001, Pliocene-Pleistocene rocky shorelines trace coastal development of Bahía Concepción, gulf coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 166, p. 65-88. (Pubitemid 32148678)
140. Johnson, M.E., Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Clark, H.C., and Zwiebel, J.A., 1996, Coastal evolution of Late Cretaceous and Pleistocene rocky shores: Pacific rim of Baja California, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 708-721.
141. Johnson, S.E., Tate, M.C., and Fanning, C.M., 1999, New geologic mapping and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon data in the Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, Mexico: Evidence for a suture?: Geology, v. 27, p. 743-746. (Pubitemid 30005586)
142. Johnson, S.E., Schmidt, K.L., and Tate, M.C., 2002, Ring complexes in the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Mexico and the USA: Magma plumbing systems in the middle and upper crust: Lithos, v. 61, p. 187-208. (Pubitemid 34577656)
143. Johnson, S.E., Fletcher, J.M., Fanning, C.M., Vernon, R.H., Paterson, S.R., and Tate, M.C., 2003, Structure, emplacement, and lateral expansion of the San Jose tonalite pluton, Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 25, p. 1933-1957. (Pubitemid 37096751)
144. Karig, D.E., and Jensky, W., 1972, The Protogulf of California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 17, p. 169-174.
145. Kerr, D.R., and Kidwell, S.M., 1991, Late Cenozoic sedimentation and tectonics, western Salton Trough, California, in Hanan, B.B., ed., Geological excursions in southern California and Mexico, Geological Society of America, National Meeting Guidebook: San Diego, California, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, p. 397-416.
146. Kimbrough, D.L., 1985, Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Vizcaíno Peninsula and Cedros and San Benito Islands, Baja California, México, in Howell, D.G., ed., Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Circum-Pacific region: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series 1, p. 285-298.
147. Kimbrough, D.L., Smith, D.P., Mahoney, J.B., Moore, T.E., Grove, M., Gastil, R.G., Ortega-Rivera, A., and Fanning, C.M., 2001, Forearc-basin sedimentary response to rapid Late Cretaceous batholith emplacement in the Peninsular Ranges of southern and Baja California: Geology, v. 29, p. 491-494. (Pubitemid 35295136)
148. King, R.E., 1939, Geological reconnaissance in northern Sierra Madre Occidental of México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 50, p. 1625-1722.
149. Kodama, K.P., and Davi, J.M., 1995, A compaction correction for the paleomagnetism of the Cretaceous Pigeon Point Formation of California: Tectonics, v. 14, p. 1153-1164. (Pubitemid 26459537)
150. Lamb, T.N., 1970, Fossiliferous Triassic metasedimentary rocks near Sun City, Riverside County, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 2, no. 110-111.
151. Lapierre, H., Ortiz, L.E., Abouchami, W., Monod, O., Coulon, C., and Zimmerman, J.-L., 1992, A crustal section of an intra-oceanic island arc: The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Guanajuato magmatic sequence, central México: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 108, p. 61-77.
152. Larsen, E.S., Jr., 1948, Batholith and associated rocks of Corona, Elsinore, and San Luis Rey quadrangles, southern California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 29, 182 p.
153. Ledesma-Vázquez, J., and Johnson, M.E., 2001, Miocene-Pleistocene tectonosedimentary evolution of Bahía Concepción region, Baja California Sur (México): Sedimentary Geology, v. 144, p. 83-96. (Pubitemid 33053307)
154. Lee, J., Miller, M.M., Crippen, R., Hacker, B., and Vázquez, J.L., 1996, Middle Miocene extension in the Gulf Extensional Province, Baja California: Evidence from the southern Sierra Juárez: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 505-525.
155. Lewis, C.J., and Stock, J.M., 1998a, Late Miocene to Recent transtensional tectonics in the Sierra San Fermín, northeastern Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 20, p. 1043-1063. (Pubitemid 28556166)
156. Lewis, C.J., and Stock, J.M., 1998b, Paleomagnetic evidence of localized vertical axis rotation during Neogene extension, Sierra San Fermín, northeastern Baja California, México: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 2455-2470.
157. Lewis, J.L., Day, S.M., Magistrale, H., Castro, R.R., Astiz, L., Rebollar, C., Eakins, J., Vernon, F.L., and Brune, J.N., 2001, Crustal thickness of the Peninsular Ranges and Gulf Extensional Province in the Californias: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 13,599-13,611.
158. Li, Y., Kodama, K.P., and Smith, D.P., 2001, A compaction-corrected inclination for the middle Cretaceous Valle Group in Vizcaíno terrane, Baja California, Mexico [abs.]: Preliminary results: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 82, p. F339.
159. Lonsdale, P., 1989, Geology and tectonic history of the Gulf of California, in Decker, R.W., ed., Decade of North American geology: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 499-521.
160. Lonsdale, P., 1991, Structural patterns of the Pacific floor offshore of peninsular California, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The Gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 87-125.
161. López-Ramos, E., 1985, Geología de México, Tomo II, edición 3a, primera reimpresión: México, D.F. (published privately), 453 p.
162. Lovera, O.M., Grove, M., Kimbrough, D.L., and Abbott, P.L., 1999, A method for evaluating basement exhumation histories from closure age distributions of detrital minerals: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 104, p. 29,419-29,438.
163. Luhr, J.F., Aranda-Gómez, J.J., and Housh, T.B., 1995, San Quintín Volcanic Field, Baja California Norte, México: Geology, petrology, and geochemistry: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, p. 10,353-10,380.
164. Lund, S.P., and Bottjer, D.J., 1991, Paleomagnetic evidence for microplate tectonic development of southern and Baja California, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The gulf and peninsular Province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 231-248.
165. Lund, S.P., Bottjer, D.J., Whidden, K.J., Powers, J.E., and Steele, M.C., 1991, Paleomagnetic evidence for Paleogene terrane displacements and accretion in southern California, in May, J.A., ed., Eocene geologic history, San Diego region: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), p. 99-106.
166. Lyle, M., and Ness, G.E., 1991, The opening of the southern Gulf of California, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 403-423.
167. Maestas, Y., MacLeod, K., Douglas, R., Self-Trail, J., and Ward, P., 2003, Late Cretaceous foraminiferal paleoenvironment and paleoceanography of the Rosario Formation, San Antonio del Mar, Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 33 (in press).
168. Martín-Barajas, A., Téllez-Duarte, M., and Stock, J.M., 1997, The Puertecitos Formation: Pliocene volcaniclastic sedimentation along an accommodation zone in northeastern Baja California, in Ledesma-Vázquez, J., ed., Pliocene carbonate and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 318, p. 1-24.
169. Martín, A., Fletcher, J.M., López-Martínez, M., and Mendoza-Borunda, R., 2000, Waning Miocene subduction and arc volcanism in Baja California: The San Luis Gonzaga volcanic field: Tectonophysics, v. 318, p. 27-51. (Pubitemid 30309152)
170. Mayer, L., and Vincent, K.R., 1999, Active tectonics of the Loreto area, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Geomorphology, v. 27, p. 243-255. (Pubitemid 30092178)
171. McCloy, C., Ingle, J.C., and Barron, J.A., 1988, Neogene stratigraphy, diatoms, and depositional history of Maria Madre Island, Mexico: Evidence of early Neogene marine conditions in the southern Gulf of California: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 13, p. 193-212. (Pubitemid 19309930)
172. McCulloch, D.S., 1987, Regional geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore central California, in Vedder, J.G., ed., Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of western North America and adjacent ocean basins-Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, no. 6, p. 353-401.
173. McDougall, K., Poore, R.Z., and Matti, J., 1999, Age and paleoenvironment of the Imperial Formation near San Gorgonio Pass, southern California: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 29, p. 4-25. (Pubitemid 129321965)
174. McDowell, F.W., and Clabaugh, S., 1979, Ignimbrites of the Sierra Madre Occidental and their relation to the tectonic history of western México: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 180, p. 113-124.
175. McDowell, F.W., Roldán-Quintana, J., and Amaya-Martínez, R., 1997, Interrelationship of sedimentary and volcanic deposits associated with Tertiary extension in Sonora, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1349-1360.
176. McLean, H., 1988, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Loreto and part of the San Javier quadrangles, Baja California Sur, México: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2000, scale 1:50,000, 1 sheet.
177. McLean, H., Hausback, B.P., and Knapp, J.H., 1987, The geology of west-central Baja California Sur, México: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 1579, p. 1-16.
178. Miller, R.H., and Dockum, M.S., 1983, Ordovician conodonts from metamorphosed carbonates of the Salton Trough, California: Geology, v. 11, p. 410-412.
179. Mina, F., 1957, Bosquejo geológico del Territorio Sur de la Baja California: Asociación Mexicana de Geólogos Petroleros Boletín, v. 9, p. 139-270.
180. Moore, G., Marone, C., Carmichael, I.S.E., and Renne, P., 1994, Basaltic volcanism and extension near the intersection of the Sierra Madre volcanic province and the Mexican Volcanic Belt: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 383-394. (Pubitemid 24425151)
181. Moore, T.E., 1985, Stratigraphy and tectonic significance of the Mesozoic tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Vizcaíno Peninsula, Baja California Sur, México, in Howell, D.G., ed., Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Circum- Pacific region: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series 1, p. 315-329.
182. Moore, T.E., 1986, Petrology and tectonic implications of the blueschist-bearing Puerto Nuevo mélange complex, Vizcaíno Peninsula, Baja California Sur, México, in Brown, E.H., ed., Blueschists and Eclogites: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 164, p. 43-58.
183. Mora-Alvarez, G., and McDowell, F.W., 2000, Miocene volcanism during late subduction and early rifting in the Sierra Santa Ursula of western Sonora, Mexico, in Stock, J.M., ed., Cenozoic tectonics and volcanism of Mexico: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 334, p. 123-141.
184. Moran, A.I., 1976, Allochthonous carbonate debris in Mesozoic flysch deposits in Santa Ana Mountains, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 60, p. 2038-2043.
185. Morris, L.K., Lund, S.P., and Bottjer, D.J., 1986, Paleolatitude drift history of displaced terranes in southern and Baja California: Nature, v. 321, p. 844-847. (Pubitemid 17276372)
186. Mukasa, S.B., Dillon, J.T., and Tosdal, R.M., 1984, A late Jurassic minimum age for the Pelona-Orocopia Schist protolith, southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, p. 323.
187. Mullan, H.S., 1978, Evolution of the Nevadan orogen in northwestern México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 89, p. 1175-1188.
188. Nagy, E.A., 2000, Extensional deformation and paleomagnetism at the western margin of the Gulf extensional province, Puertecitos Volcanic Province, northeastern Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, p. 857-870. (Pubitemid 32832328)
189. Nagy, E.A., and Stock, J.N., 2000, Structural controls on the continent-ocean transition in the northern Gulf of California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 16,251-16,269.
190. Nagy, E.A., Grove, M., and Stock, J.M., 1999, Age and stratigraphic relationships of pre- and syn-rift volcanic deposits in the northern Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 93, p. 1-30. (Pubitemid 30116013)
191. NAMAG, 2002, North American Magnetic Anomaly Map: U.S. Geological Survey.
192. Nava-Sánchez, E.H., Gorsline, D.S., and Molina-Cruz, A., 2001, The Baja California peninsula borderland: Structural and sedimentological characteristics: Sedimentary Geology, v. 144, p. 63-82. (Pubitemid 33053306)
193. Neuhaus, J.R., Cassidy, M., Krummenacher, D., and Gastil, R.G., 1988, Timing of protogulf extension and transtensional rifting through volcanic/sedimentary stratigraphy of SW Isla Tiburón, Gulf of California, Sonora, México: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, p. 218.
194. Nieto-Samaniego, A.F., Ferrari, L., Alaniz-Alvarez, S.A., Labarthe-Hernández, G., and Rosas-Elguera, J., 1999, Variation of Cenozoic extension and volcanism across the southern Sierra Madre Occidental volcanic province, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 347-363.
195. Normark, W.R., Spencer, J.E., and Ingle, J., 1987, Geology and Neogene history of the Pacific continental margin of Baja California Sur, México, in Vedder, J.G., ed., Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of western North America and adjacent ocean basins-Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, no. 6, p. 449-472.
196. Nourse, J.A., Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T., 1994, Tertiary metamorphic core complexes in Sonora, northwestern México: Tectonics, v. 13, p. 1161-1182.
197. Ortega-Gutiérrez, F., 1982, Evolución magmática y metamórfica del complejo cristalino de La Paz, Baja California Sur: México, D.F., Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, VI Convención Nacional, Libro de Resúmenes, p. 90.
198. Ortega-Rivera, A., Farrar, E., Hanes, J.A., Archibald, D.A., Gastil, R.G., Kimbrough, D.L., Zentilli, M., López-Martínez, M., Féraud, G., and Ruffet, G., 1997, Chronological constraints on the thermal and tilting history of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir pluton, Baja California, México, from U/Pb, 40Ar/39Ar, and fission-track geochronology: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 728-745.
199. Oskin, M., and Stock, J., 2003, Marine incursion synchronous with plateboundary localization in the Gulf of California: Geology, v. 31, p. 23-26. (Pubitemid 36238435)
200. Oskin, M., Stock, J., and Martín-Barajas, A., 2001, Rapid localization of Pacific-North America plate motion in the Gulf of California: Geology, v. 29, p. 459-462. (Pubitemid 35295130)
201. Oskin, M.E., 2002, Part I. Tectonic evolution of the northern Gulf of California, Mexico, deduced from conjugate rifted margins of the Upper Delfín basin. Part II. Active folding and seismic hazard in central Los Angeles, California [Ph.D. thesis]: Pasadena, California, California Institute of Technology, 481 p.
202. Page, B.M., and Engebretson, D.C., 1984, Correlation between the geologic record and computed plate motions for central California: Tectonics, v. 3, p. 133-155.
203. Patterson, D.L., 1984, Paleomagnetism of the Valle Formation and the Late Cretaceous paleogeography of the Vizcaíno Basin, Baja California, México, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California peninsula: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 173-182.
204. Patzkowsky, M.E., Smith, L.H., Markwick, P.J., Engberts, C.J., and Gyllenhaal, E.D., 1991, Application of the Fujita-Ziegler paleoclimate model: Early Permian and Late Cretaceous examples: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 86, p. 67-85.
205. Paz Moreno, F.A., and Demant, A., 1999, The Recent Isla San Luis volcanic centre: Petrology of a rift-related volcanic suite in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 93, p. 31-52. (Pubitemid 30116014)
206. Phillips, J.R., 1993, Stratigraphy and structural setting of the mid-Cretaceous Olvidada Formation, Baja California Norte, Mexico, in Miller, R.H., ed., The prebatholithic stratigraphy of peninsular California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 279, p. 97-106. (Pubitemid 24421296)
207. Radelli, L., 1989, The ophiolites of Calmalli (El Arco) and the Olvidada nappe of northern Baja California and west-central Sonora, México, in Abbott, P.L., ed., Geologic studies in Baja California: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 79-85.
208. Rangin, C., 1978, Speculative model of Mesozoic geodynamics, central Baja California to northeastern Sonora (México), in McDougall, K.A., ed., Mesozoic paleogeography of the Western United States: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 85-106.
209. Rockwell, T.K., Schug, D.L., and Hatch, M.E., 1993, Late Quaternary slip rates along the Agua Blanca fault, Baja California, México, in Rendina, M.A., ed., Geologic investigations in Baja California, México: Santa Ana, California, South Coast Geological Society, Annual Field Trip Guidebook No. 21, p. 53-91.
210. Roldán-Quintana, J., 1991, Geology and chemical composition of the Jaralito and Aconchi batholiths in east-central Sonora, México, in Jacques-Ayala, C., ed., Studies of Sonoran geology: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 254, p. 69-80.
211. Romo, J.M., 2002, Conductividad eléctrica de la litósfera de Baja California en la región de Vizcaíno, B.C.S. [Ph.D. thesis]: Ensenada, Baja California, México, CICESE, 151 p.
212. Romo, J.M., Gómez-Treviño, E., Perez-Flores, M.A., García-Abdeslem, J., Esparza, F.M., and Flores-Luna, C.F., 2001, Electrical structure of the Baja California lithosphere beneath Vizcaíno region: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 82, no. 47, p. F321.
213. Ross, D.C., 1977, Pre-intrusive metasedimentary rocks of the Salinian block, California-A paleotectonic dilemma, in Fritsche, A.E., ed., Paleozoic Paleogeography of the western United States, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 1: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 371-380.
214. Salinas-Prieto, J.C., Monod, O., and Faure, M., 2000, Ductile deformations of opposite vergence in the eastern part of the Guerrero terrane (SW Mexico): Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 13, p. 389-402. (Pubitemid 32062895)
215. Santillán, M., and Barrera, T., 1930, Las posibilidades petroliferas en la costa occidental de la Baja California, entre los parallelos 30 y 32 de latitud norte: Anales del Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, v. 5, p. 1-37.
216. Saul, L.R., 1986, Pacific west coast Cretaceous molluscan faunas: Time and aspect of changes, in Abbott, P.L., ed., Cretaceous stratigraphy western North America: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 131-136.
217. Saunders, A.D., Rogers, G., Marriner, G.F., Terrell, D.J., and Verma, S.P., 1987, Geochemistry of Cenozoic volcanic rocks, Baja California, México: Implications for the petrogenesis of post-subduction magmas: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 32, p. 223-245.
218. Sawlan, M.G., 1991, Magmatic evolution of the Gulf of California rift, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The gulf and peninsular province of the Californias, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 301-369.
219. Sawlan, M.G., and Smith, J.G., 1984, Petrologic characteristics, age and tectonic setting of Neogene volcanic rocks in northern Baja California Sur, México, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California peninsula: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 39, p. 237-251.
220. Schaaf, P., Morán-Zenteno, D., Hernández-Bernal, M.S., Solís-Pichardo, G., Tolson, G., and Kohler, H., 1995, Paleogene continental margin truncation in southwestern Mexico: Geochronological evidence: Tectonics, v. 14, p. 1339-1350. (Pubitemid 26462246)
221. Schaaf, P., Böhnel, H., and Pérez-Venzor, J.A., 2000, Pre-Miocene paleogeography of the Los Cabos Block, Baja California Sur: Geochronological and palaeomagnetic implications: Tectonophysics, v. 318, p. 53-69. (Pubitemid 30309153)
222. Schmidt, K.L., and Paterson, S.R., 2002, A doubly vergent fan structure in the Peninsular Ranges batholith: Transpression or local complex flow around a continental margin buttress?: Tectonics, v. 21, no. 5, DOI 10.1029/ 2001TC001353.
223. Schmidt, K.L., Wetmore, P.H., Johnson, S.E., and Paterson, S.R., 2002, Controls on orogenesis along an ocean-continent margin transition in the Jura- Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith, in Barth, A., ed., Contributions to crustal evolution of the southwestern United States: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 49-71.
224. Schwennicke, T., González-Barba, G., and De Anda Franco, N., 1996, Lower Miocene marine and fluvial beds at Rancho La Palma, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Boletín del Departamento de Geología, Uni-Son, v. 13, no. 1, p. 1-14.
225. Sedlock, R.L., 1988a, Metamorphic petrology of a high-pressure, low-temperature subduction complex in west-central Baja California, México: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 5, p. 205-233.
226. Sedlock, R.L., 1988b, Tectonic setting of blueschist and island-arc terranes of west-central Baja California, México: Geology, v. 16, p. 623-626.
227. Sedlock, R.L., 1993, Mesozoic geology and tectonics of blueschist and associated oceanic terranes in the Cedros-Vizcaíno-San Benito and Magdalena- Santa Margarita regions, Baja California, México, in McDougall, K., ed., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States-II: Los Angeles, California, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Book 71, p. 113-125.
228. Sedlock, R.L., 1996, Syn-subduction forearc extension and blueschist exhumation in Baja California, México, in Platt, J.P., ed., Dynamics of subduction: American Geophysical Union Monograph 96, p. 155-162.
229. Sedlock, R.L., 1997, Field-based investigations of Mesozoic rocks near El Arco, central Baja California, México, in IV International meeting on geology of Baja California peninsula, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico, Peninsular Geological Society.
230. Sedlock, R.L., 1999, Evaluation of exhumation mechanisms for coherent blueschists in western Baja California, México, in Willett, S.D., ed., Exhumation processes: Normal faulting, ductile flow, and erosion: London, Geological Society [London], p. 29-54. (Pubitemid 30025143)
231. Sedlock, R.L., and Isozaki, Y., 1990, Lithology and biostratigraphy of Franciscan- like chert and associated rocks, west-central Baja California, México: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 852-864.
232. Sedlock, R.L., Ortega-Gutiérrez, F., and Speed, R.C., 1993, Tectonostratigraphic terranes and tectonic evolution of México: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 278, p. 153 p.
233. Severinghaus, J., and Atwater, T.M., 1990, Cenozoic geometry and thermal condition of the subducting slabs beneath western North America: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Memoir 176, p. 1-22.
234. Siem, M.E., and Gastil, R.G., 1994, Mid-Tertiary to Holocene extension associated with the development of the Sierra El Mayor metamorphic core complex, northeastern Baja California, México, in Ross, T.M., ed., Geological investigations of an active margin: Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Guidebook, p. 107-119.
235. Silberling, N.J., Jones, D.L., Monger, J.W.H., and Coney, P.J., 1992, Lithotectonic terrane map of the North American Cordillera, Map I-2176: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Investigation Series, scale 1:5,000,000, 2 sheets.
236. Silver, L.T., and Chappell, B.W., 1988, The Peninsular Ranges batholith: An insight into the evolution of the Cordilleran batholiths of southwestern North America: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 79, p. 105-121.
237. Silver, L.T., and Nourse, J.A., 1986, The Rand Mountains "thrust" complex in comparison with the Vincent thrust-Pelona schist relationship, southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 18, p. 185.
238. Silver, L.T., Taylor, H.P., Jr., and Chappell, B., 1979, Some petrological, geochemical, and geochronological observations of the Peninsular Ranges batholith near the international border of the U.S.A. and México, in Todd, V.R., ed., Mesozoic crystalline rocks: San Diego, California, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, p. 83-110.
239. Smith, J.T., 1991, Cenozoic marine mollusks and paleogeography of the Gulf of California, in Simoneit, B.R.T., ed., The gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 637-666.
240. Smith, J.T., 1992, The Salada Formation of Baja California Sur, México [abs]: La Paz, Baja California Sur, Peninsular Geological Society, First International Meeting on Geology of the Baja California Peninsula Memoir, p. 23-32.
241. Smith, D.P., and Busby, C.J., 1993a, Mid-Cretaceous crustal extension recorded in deep-marine half-graben fill, Cedros Island, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 547-562. (Pubitemid 23390984)
242. Smith, D.P., and Busby, C.J., 1993b, Shallow magnetic inclinations in the Cretaceous Valle Group, Baja California: Remagnetization, compaction, or terrane translation?: Tectonics, v. 12, p. 1258-1266. (Pubitemid 24420734)
243. Spencer, J.E., and Normark, W.R., 1979, Tosco-Abreojos fault zone: A Neogene transform plate boundary within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, México: Geology, v. 7, p. 554-557.
244. Stewart, J.H., 1990, Position of Paleozoic continental margin in northwestern México: Present knowledge and speculations: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. 86-87.
245. Stock, J.M., 2000, Relation of the Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Baja California, Mexico, to development of the plate boundary in the Gulf of California, in Stock, J.M., ed., Cenozoic tectonics and volcanism of Mexico: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 334, p. 143-156.
246. Stock, J.M., and Hodges, K.V., 1989, Pre-Pliocene extension around the Gulf of California, and the transfer of Baja California to the Pacific plate: Tectonics, v. 8, p. 99-116.
247. Stock, J.M., and Hodges, K.V., 1990, Miocene to Recent structural development of an extensional accommodation zone, northeastern Baja California, México: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 12, p. 315-328. (Pubitemid 20736287)
248. Stock, J.M., Lewis, C.J., and Nagy, E.A., 1999, The Tuff of San Felipe: An extensive middle Miocene pyroclastic flow deposit in Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 93, p. 53-74. (Pubitemid 30116015)
249. Tan, X., and Kodama, K.P., 1998, Compaction-corrected inclinations from southern California Cretaceous marine sedimentary rocks indicate no paleolatitudinal offset for the Peninsular Ranges terrane: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 27,168-27,192.
250. Tanaka, H., Smith, T.E., and Huang, C.H., 1984, The Santiago Peak volcanic rocks of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California: Volcanic rocks associated with coeval gabbros: Bulletin Volcanologique, v. 47, p. 153-171.
251. Tarduno, J.A., 1990, Absolute inclination values from deep-sea sediments: A reexamination of the Cretaceous Pacific record: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 17, p. 101-104.
252. Tardy, M., Lapierre, H., Freydier, C., Coulon, C., Gill, J.-B., Mercier de Lépinay, B., Beck, C., Martínez-R, J., Talavera-Mendoza, O., Ortiz, H.E., Stein, G., Bourdier, J.-L., and Yta, M., 1994, The Guerrero suspect terrane (western Mexico) and coeval arc terranes (the Greater Antilles, and the Western Cordillera of Columbia): A late Mesozoic intra-oceanic arc accreted to cratonal America during the Cretaceous: Tectonophysics, v. 230, p. 49-74.
253. Tate, M.C., and Johnson, S.E., 2000, Subvolcanic and deep-crustal tonalite genesis beneath the Mexican Peninsular Ranges: Journal of Geology, v. 108, p. 721-728. (Pubitemid 32012259)
254. Tate, M.C., Norman, M.D., Johnson, S.E., Fanning, C.M., and Anderson, J.L., 1999, Generation of tonalite and trondhjemite by subvolcanic fractionation and partial melting in the Zarza Intrusive Complex, western Peninsular Ranges batholith, northwestern Mexico: Journal of Petrology, v. 40, p. 983-1010. (Pubitemid 29432712)
255. Teissere, R.F., and Beck, M.E., Jr., 1973, Divergent Cretaceous paleomagnetic pole position for the Southern California batholith, U.S.A.: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 18, p. 296-300.
256. Thomson, C.N., and Girty, G.H., 1994, Early Cretaceous intra-arc ductile strain in Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous continental margin arc rocks, Peninsular Ranges, California: Tectonics, v. 13, p. 1108-1119.
257. Todd, V.R., Erskine, B.G., and Morton, D.M., 1988, Metamorphic and tectonic evolution of the northern Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California, in Ernst, W.G., ed., Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States (Rubey Volume VII): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, p. 894-937.
258. Todd, V.R., Shaw, S.E., Girty, G.H., and Jachens, R.C., 1991, A probable Jurassic plutonic arc of continental affinity in the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California: Tectonic implications: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 104.
259. Tosdal, R.M., Haxel, G.B., and Wright, J.E., 1990, Jurassic geology of the Sonoran Desert region, southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northernmost Sonora, in Reynolds, S.J., ed., Geologic evolution of Arizona: Arizona Geological Society, Digest 17, p. 397-434.
260. Umhoefer, P.J., 2000, Where are the missing faults in translated terranes?: Tectonophysics, v. 326, p. 23-35. (Pubitemid 32143497)
261. Umhoefer, P.J., and Dorsey, R.J., 1997, Translation of terranes: Lessons from central Baja California, México: Geology, v. 25, p. 1007-1010.
262. Umhoefer, P.J., Stock, J.M., and Martín-Barajas, A., 1996, Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of California and its margins (Penrose Conference Report): GSA Today, v. 6, no. 8, p. 16-17.
263. Umhoefer, P.J., Dorsey, R.J., Willsey, S., Mayer, L., and Renne, P., 2001, Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Comondú Group near Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Sedimentary Geology, v. 144, p. 125-147. (Pubitemid 33053309)
264. Umhoefer, P.J., Mayer, L., and Dorsey, R.J., 2002, Evolution of the margin of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California peninsula, Mexico:, v. 114, p. 849-868.
265. U.S. Geological Survey-Middle America Seismograph, 1998, Caribbean seismicity 1900-1994: U.S. Geological Survey-Middle America Seismograph (MIDAS Consortium), scale 1:6,500,000, 1 sheet.
266. Valencia-Moreno, M., Ruiz, J., Barton, M.D., Patchett, P.J., Zürcher, L., Hodkinson, D.G., and Roldán-Quintana, J., 2001, A chemical and isotopic study of the Laramide granitic belt of northwestern Mexico: Identification of the southern edge of the North American Precambrian basement: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1409-1422. (Pubitemid 34050309)
267. Walawender, M.J., Gastil, R.G., Clinkenbeard, J.P., McCormick, W.V., Eastman, B.G., Wernicke, R.S., Wardlaw, M.S., Gunn, S.H., and Smith, B.M., 1990, Origin and evolution of La Posta-type plutons, eastern Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California, in Anderson, J.L., ed., The nature and origin of Cordilleran magmatism: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 1-18.
268. Walawender, M.J., Girty, G.H., Lombardi, M.R., Kimbrough, D., Girty, M.S., and Anderson, C., 1991, A synthesis of recent work in the Peninsular Ranges batholith, in Hanan, B.B., ed., Geological excursions in southern California and México: Geological Society of America, 1991 Annual Meeting, Guidebook, p. 297-318.
269. Walsh, S.L., and Demere, T.A., 1991, Age and stratigraphy of the Sweetwater and Otay formations, San Diego County, California, in May, J.A., ed., Eocene geologic history, San Diego region: Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), p. 131-148.
270. Wetmore, P.H., Schmidt, K.L., Paterson, S.R., and Herzig, C., 2002, Tectonic implications for the along-strike variation of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California: Geology, v. 30, p. 247-250. (Pubitemid 35016122)
271. Whidden, K.J., Lund, S.P., Bottjer, D.J., Champion, D., and Howell, D.G., 1998, Paleomagnetic evidence that the central block of Salinia (California) is not a far-traveled terrane: Tectonics, v. 17, p. 329-343. (Pubitemid 28469742)
272. Williams, W.J.W., 1999, Evolution of Quaternary intraplate mafic lavas detailed using 3He surface exposure and 40Ar/39Ar dating, and elemental and He, Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic signatures: Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico, U.S.A., and San Quintin Volcanic Field, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Ph.D. thesis]: El Paso, Texas, University of Texas, 193 p.
273. Yule, J.D., and Herzig, C.T., 1994, Paleomagnetic evidence for no large-scale northward translation of the southern California Peninsular Ranges: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. A461.
274. Zanchi, A., 1994, The opening of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California, México from basin and range extension to transtensional tectonics: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 16, p. 1619-1639.