On the Plate Boundary Forces that Drive and Resist Baja California Motion
On the Plate Boundary Forces that Drive and Resist Baja California Motion
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论驱动和抵抗下加利福尼亚州运动的板块边界力
作者:
Plattner;R. Malservisi;R. Gover
The driving forces of microplate transport remain one of the major unknowns in plate tectonics. Our hypothesis postulates that the Baja California microplate is transported along the North America–Pacific plate boundary by partial coupling to the Pacific plate and low coupling to the North America plate. To test this idea, we use numerical modeling to examine the interplate coupling on a multiple-earthquake-cycle time scale along the Baja California–Pacific plate boundary and compare the modeled velocity field with the observed geodetic motion of the Baja California microplate. We find that when the strain can localize along a weak structure surrounding microplate (faults), high interplate coupling, produced by frictional tectonic stresses, can reproduce the observed kinematics of the Baja California microplate as seen from geodetic rigid-plate motions. We also find that the northward motion of Baja California can influence the fault slip partitioning of the major faults in the North America–Pacific plate boundary region north of Baja California.
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2001
期刊:
影响因子:
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作者:
R. Govers;P. Meijer
通讯作者:
P. Meijer
影响因子:
5.2
作者:
F. Michaud;M. Sosson;J. Royer;A. Chabert;J. Bourgois;T. Calmus;C. Mortera;F. Bigot‐cormier;W. Bandy;J. Dyment;B. Pontoise;B. Sichler
通讯作者:
B. Sichler
影响因子:
2.8
作者:
C. Plattner;R. Malservisi;T. Dixon;P. LaFemina;G. Sella;J. Fletcher;F. Suárez‐Vidal
通讯作者:
C. Plattner;R. Malservisi;T. Dixon;P. LaFemina;G. Sella;J. Fletcher;F. Suárez‐Vidal
影响因子:
5.3
作者:
K. Stüwe
通讯作者:
K. Stüwe
影响因子:
4.2
作者:
J. Stock;K. Hodges
通讯作者:
K. Hodges