Cenozoic magmatism and extension in western Mexico: Linking the Sierra Madre Occidental silicic large igneous province and the Comondú Group with the Gulf of …

L Ferrari, T Orozco-Esquivel, SE Bryan… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
A new view on the genesis of, and links between, the Sierra Madre Occidental silicic large
igneous province, the Comondú Group of Baja California, and the Gulf of California rift has …

The Cretaceous-Eocene Mexican Magmatic Arc: Conceptual framework from geochemical and geochronological data of plutonic rocks

M Valencia-Moreno, M López-Martínez… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a study based on new and compiled geochronological and geochemical data to
assess the tectonomagmatic evolution of Mexico from the Late Cretaceous and Eocene …

Adjoint‐state traveltime tomography: Eikonal equation‐based methods and application to the Anza area in southern California

P Tong - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ray tracing is avoidable in seismic traveltime tomography. In this study, seismic traveltime
tomography is reformulated as an eikonal equation‐constrained optimization problem …

Arc and slab-failure magmatism in Cordilleran batholiths II–The Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern and Baja California

RS Hildebrand, JB Whalen - Geoscience Canada, 2014 - erudit.org
Ever since the late 1960s when Warren Hamilton proposed that the great Cordilleran
batholiths of the western Americas are the roots of volcanic arcs like the Andes and were …

Timing of rifting in the southern Gulf of California and its conjugate margins: Insights from the plutonic record

J Duque-Trujillo, L Ferrari, T Orozco-Esquivel… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Gulf of California is a young example of crustal stretching and transtensional
shearing leading to the birth of a new oceanic basin at a formerly convergent margin …

San A ndreas F ault dip, P eninsular R anges mafic lower crust and partial melt in the S alton T rough, S outhern C alifornia, from ambient‐noise tomography

S Barak, SL Klemperer… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We use ambient‐noise tomography to improve CVM‐H11. 9, a community velocity model of
southern California. Our new 3‐D shear‐velocity model with x lateral and 1 km vertical …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

Compositional variation in the crust of peninsular ranges and surrounding regions, southern California, revealed by full‐wave seismic and gravity joint inversion

X Bao, L Guo, Y Shen - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Detailed three‐dimensional models of crustal compositional variations are essential for
better understanding crustal evolution and dynamics. High‐resolution wave speed and …

Guerrero-Alisitos-Vizcaino superterrane of western Mexico and its ties to the Mexican continental margin (Gondwana and SW Laurentia)

CJ Busby - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This chapter expands upon a model, first proposed in 1998 by Busby and others, in which
Mesozoic oceanic-arc rocks of Baja California formed along the Mexican continental margin …

Three‐dimensional basin and fault structure from a detailed seismic velocity model of Coachella Valley, Southern California

R Ajala, P Persaud, JM Stock, GS Fuis… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Coachella Valley in the northern Salton Trough is known to produce destructive
earthquakes, making it a high seismic hazard area. Knowledge of the seismic velocity …