COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Active Strain within the Pacific- North American Oblique -Divergent Plate Boundary Baja California Sur, Mexico

9807673斜向收敛板块边缘的狄克逊应变和变形分配是在25年前提出的，随后在许多俯冲带的弧部被发现。变形是否在发散的板块边缘被分割仍然是一个悬而未决的问题，更不用说如何分割变形了。该项目将是第一批批判性地探索这一问题的项目之一。它聚焦于墨西哥的南巴哈加利福尼亚，作为倾斜发散的板块边界的最好例子之一，具有最大的倾角之一。如果这项研究成功，它将确定该地区断层的现代位移速率，确定过去几百万年来相同构造的平均位移速率，并最终确定应变分割在这些走滑位移中所起的作用。

9807673 Dixon Strain and deformation partitioning at oblique convergent plate margins was proposed twenty-five years ago, and subsequently has been identified in the arcs of many subduction zones. Whether or not deformation is partitioned in divergent plate margins is still an open question, let alone how the deformation might be partitioned. The project will be one of the first to critically explore this question. It focuses on Baja California Sur, in Mexico, as one of the best examples of an oblique divergent plate boundary, with one of the largest obliquities. If this study is successful, it will determine the rates of modern displacement of faults in the region, determine the average rates of displacement for the same structures over the last few million years, and ultimately establish what role the strain partitioning has in these strike-slip displacements.