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Banderas Rift Zone: A plausible NW limit of the Jalisco Block
Author(s) -
Alvarez Román
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2002gl016089
Subject(s) - rift , geology , graben , escarpment , block (permutation group theory) , rift zone , geomorphology , geometry , structural basin , mathematics
Echo soundings recently made in Bahía de Banderas show that this region is a graben with steeply dipping walls and several basins; it is the offshore continuation of the Valle de Banderas graben, and of a branching rift (Río Ameca rift) originating in the Tepic‐Zacoalco rift zone. The general trend of the three structures is ENE with some NE trending offsets, and they have a total length of 150 km; this Banderas Rift Zone is proposed as the NW limit of the Jalisco block. The existence of this limit suggests that there is another platelet, or block, between the Jalisco block and a portion of the Rivera plate, probably bounded by the Tres Marías escarpment, the Jalisco block and the North America plate.