Preliminary Determination of Pacfic-North America Relative Motion in the Southern Gulf of Calfornia Using the Global Positioning System

Authors

Timothy H. Dixon, Jet Propulsion LaboratoryFollow
G. Gonzalez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
S. M. Lichten, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
D. M. Tralli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
G. E. Ness, Oregon State University
J. P. Dauphin, Oregon State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1991

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1029/91GL01062

Abstract

Global Positioning System (GPS) data from experiments conducted in 1985 and 1989 in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico, allow a determination of relative motion between the Pacific and North American plates. The data indicate motion of Cabo San Lucas on the Pacific plate relative to North America at a rate of 47±7 mrn/yr and azimuth of 57±6° west of north (1σ errors), equivalent within uncertainties to the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 18, issue 5, p. 861-864

Copyright 1991 by the American Geophysical Union.

Scholar Commons Citation

Dixon, Timothy H.; Gonzalez, G.; Lichten, S. M.; Tralli, D. M.; Ness, G. E.; and Dauphin, J. P., "Preliminary Determination of Pacfic-North America Relative Motion in the Southern Gulf of Calfornia Using the Global Positioning System" (1991). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 505.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/505