Characterizing strain between rigid crustal blocks in the southern Cascadia forearc: Quaternary faults and folds of the northern Sacramento Valley, California
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Abstract
Topographic profiles across late Quaternary surfaces in the northern Sacramento Valley (California, USA) show offset and progressive folding on series of active east- and northeast—trending faults and folds. Optically stimulated luminescence ages on deposits draping a warped late Pleistocene river terrace yielded differential incision rates along the Sacramento River and indicate tectonic uplift equal to 0.2 ± 0.1 and 0.6 ± 0.2 mm/yr above the anticline of the Inks Creek fold system and Red Bluff fault, respectively. Uplift rates correspond to a total of 1.3 ± 0.4 mm/yr of north-directed crustal shortening, accounting for all of the geodetically observed contractional strain in the northern Sacramento Valley, but only part of the far-field contraction between the Sierra Nevada–Great Valley and Oregon Coast blocks. These structures define the southern limit of the transpressional transition between the two blocks.
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Angster, S.J., Wesnousky, S.G., Figueiredo, P., Owen, L., and Sawyer, T., 2021, Characterizing strain between rigid crustal blocks in the southern Cascadia forearc: Quaternary faults and folds of the northern Sacramento Valley, California: Geology, v. 49, no. 4, p. 387-391, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48114.1.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Characterizing strain between rigid crustal blocks in the southern Cascadia forearc: Quaternary faults and folds of the northern Sacramento Valley, California |
| Series title | Geology |
| DOI | 10.1130/G48114.1 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication Date | December 10, 2020 |
| Year Published | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Geological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |
| Description | 5 p. |
| First page | 387 |
| Last page | 391 |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Other Geospatial | Sacramento Valley |