Kinematics of the Eastern California Shear Zone: Evidence for Slip Transfer from Owens and Saline Valley Fault Zones to Fish Lake Valley Fault Zone
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1996
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0339:KOTECS>2.3.CO;2
Abstract
Late Quaternary slip rates and satellite-based geodetic data for the western Great Basin constrain regional fault-slip distribution and evolution. The geologic slip rate on the Fish Lake Valley fault zone (the northwest extension of the Furnace Creek fault zone) increases northward from about 3 to 5 mm/yr, in agreement with modeled geodetic data. The increase coincides with the intersections of the Deep Springs fault, connected to the Owens Valley fault zone, and of other faults connected to the Saline Valley fault. The combined geologic and geodetic data suggest that (1) the northwest-striking faults of the Eastern California shear zone north of the Garlock fault are connected by north- to northeast-striking normal faults that transfer slip in a series of right steps, and (2) the amount and distribution of slip among the many faults of this broad, complex plate boundary have changed through time.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Geology, v. 24, issue 4, p. 339-342
Scholar Commons Citation
Reheis, Marith C. and Dixon, Timothy H., "Kinematics of the Eastern California Shear Zone: Evidence for Slip Transfer from Owens and Saline Valley Fault Zones to Fish Lake Valley Fault Zone" (1996). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 493.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/493
