| Abstract: | Marine terraces are common landforms along the Pacific coast of North America from southern Oregon to southern Baja California. We report 60 new uranium-series ages of marine terrace corals, hydrocorals, and other fossils. Terraces representing the ca. 80 ka and ca. 125 ka high stands of sea are the most common along the Pacific coast and we have used these ages, along with terrace shoreline angle elevations and paleo-sea-level estimates, to calculate Late Quaternary uplift rates. Uplift rates in the forearc region of the Cascadia subduction zone range from 0.45-1.08 m/kyr. Farther south, along most of the coast west of the San Andreas fault zone, uplift rates range from 0.15-0.35 m/kyr, but some areas have significantly higher rates of uplift and others have apparently experienced little or no uplift in the last 125 ka. In Baja California Sur, west of the East Pacific Rise, little or no uplift has occurred during the Late Quaternary. On average, the magnitude of rates of uplift for the tectonic regimes is as follows: Cascadia subduction zone > San Andreas fault zone region > East Pacific Rise region. ?? 1992. |
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| Citation Author: | Muhs, D. R.; Rockwell, T. K.; Kennedy, G. L. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Late quaternary uplift rates of marine terraces on the Pacific coast of North America, southern Oregon to Baja California sur; 1992; Article; Journal; Quaternary International; Muhs, D. R.; Rockwell, T. K.; Kennedy, G. L. |
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| Text: | Late quaternary uplift rates of marine terraces on the Pacific coast of North America, southern Oregon to Baja California sur; 1992; Article; Journal; Quaternary International; Muhs, D. R.; Rockwell, T. K.; Kennedy, G. L. |
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| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/1040-6182(92)90041-Y |
| Date Other: | Wed, 1 Jan 1992 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
