Award Abstract # 0505348
Collaborative Research: Neotectonics across an active Oblique-Divergent Plate Margin, Southwestern Gulf of California

NSF Org: OCE
Division Of Ocean Sciences
Recipient: NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: September 6, 2005
Latest Amendment Date: August 20, 2008
Award Number: 0505348
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Bilal U. Haq
OCE
 Division Of Ocean Sciences
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: September 1, 2005
End Date: August 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $186,236.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2005 = $186,236.00
History of Investigator:
  • Paul Umhoefer (Principal Investigator)
    dorsey@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Northern Arizona University
601 S KNOLES DR RM 220
FLAGSTAFF
AZ  US  86011
(928)523-0886
Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: Northern Arizona University
601 S KNOLES DR RM 220
FLAGSTAFF
AZ  US  86011
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): MXHAS3AKPRN1
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): Marine Geology and Geophysics
Primary Program Source: app-0105 
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, OTHR, 1620
Program Element Code(s): 162000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.050

ABSTRACT

The proposed research will quantify the partitioning of strain between the southern Baja California continental margin and the Gulf of California seafloor spreading system through a comprehensive survey of active fault locations and slip rates at 10 to 100,000 year time scales. It builds on the experience of the PIs in the region. The focus of study is a segment of the rift margin at La Paz Bay. Several approaches will be employed, including neotectonic mapping, onshore and offshore structural mapping, paleoseismology and geodesy. The goals are to determine to what extent is the plate margin strike-slip partitioned; why does the degree of partitioning change along strike along the margin and how has faulting changed over time? The project is a part of MARGINS "rupture of continental lithosphere" initiative. Work will be in collaboration with Mexican scientists and will contribute toward the understanding of earthquake hazards in the area.

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Busch, M., Arrowsmith, J R., Umhoefer, P J, Gutiérrez, G M, Toke, N, Brothers, D, Dimaggio, E, Maloney, S, Zielke, O, Buchanan, B "Late Quaternary faulting in the Cabo San Lucas-La Paz Region, Baja California" EOS, AGU Fall meeting , 2006
Busch, M., Arrowsmith, J R., Umhoefer, P J, Gutiérrez, G M, Toke, N, Brothers, D, Dimaggio, E, Maloney, S, Zielke, O, Buchanan, B "Late Quaternary faulting in the Cabo San Lucas-La Paz Region, Baja California" EOS, AGU Fall meeting , 2006
C. Plattner,1 R. Malservisi,1 T. H. Dixon,2 P. LaFemina,2,? G. F. Sella,3 J. Fletcher4 "New constraints on relative motion between the Pacific Plate and" Geophysics Journal International , 2007 , p.1

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