scholarly journals GPS geodetic constraints on Caribbean-North America Plate Motion

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles DeMets ◽  
Pamela E. Jansma ◽  
Glen S. Mattioli ◽  
Timothy H. Dixon ◽  
Fred Farina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Plate Motion

scholarly journals Extreme Quaternary plate boundary exhumation and strike slip localized along the southern Fairweather fault, Alaska, USA

Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 602-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard O. Lease ◽  
Peter J. Haeussler ◽  
Robert C. Witter ◽  
Daniel F. Stockli ◽  
Adrian M. Bender ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Sedimentary Cover ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Slip Rate ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Plate Motion ◽  
The North ◽  
Exhumation Rates ◽  
Restraining Bend

Abstract The Fairweather fault (southeastern Alaska, USA) is Earth’s fastest-slipping intracontinental strike-slip fault, but its long-term role in localizing Yakutat–(Pacific–)North America plate motion is poorly constrained. This plate boundary fault transitions northward from pure strike slip to transpression where it comes onshore and undergoes a <25°, 30-km-long restraining double bend. To the east, apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) ages indicate that North America exhumation rates increase stepwise from ∼0.7 to 1.7 km/m.y. across the bend. In contrast, to the west, AHe age-depth data indicate that extremely rapid 5–10 km/m.y. Yakutat exhumation rates are localized within the bend. Further northwest, Yakutat AHe and zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe) ages gradually increase from 0.3 to 2.6 Ma over 150 km and depict an interval of extremely rapid >6–8 km/m.y. exhumation rates that increases in age away from the bend. We interpret this migration of rapid, transient exhumation to reflect prolonged advection of the Cenozoic–Cretaceous sedimentary cover of the eastern Yakutat microplate through a stationary restraining bend along the edge of the North America plate. Yakutat cooling ages imply a long-term strike-slip rate (54 ± 6 km/m.y.) that mimics the millennial (53 ± 5 m/k.y.) and decadal (46 mm/yr) rates. Fairweather fault slip can account for all Pacific–North America relative plate motion throughout Quaternary time and indicates stability of highly localized plate boundary strike slip on a single fault where extreme rock uplift rates are persistently localized within a restraining bend.

Closure of the Africa-Eurasia-North America Plate motion circuit and tectonics of the Gloria Fault

1989 ◽  
Vol 94 (B5) ◽  
pp. 5585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Argus ◽  
Richard G. Gordon ◽  
Charles DeMets ◽  
Seth Stein
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Plate Motion

Rapid localization of Pacific–North America plate motion in the Gulf of California

Geology ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Oskin ◽  
Joann Stock ◽  
Arturo Martín-Barajas
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Plate Motion
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