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The Gulf of California Rift Zone (GCRZ) is the northernmost extension of the East Pacific Rise which extends some 1,300 km (800 mi) from the mouth of the Gulf of California to the southern terminus of the San Andreas Fault at the Salton Sink. The GCRZ is an incipient rift zone akin to the Red Sea Rift.
This extension of the East Pacific Rise is often referred to as the Gulf of California Rift Zone. The Gulf would extend as far as Indio, California, except for the tremendous delta created by the Colorado River. This delta blocks the sea from flooding the Mexicali and Imperial Valleys. Volcanism dominates the East Pacific Rise.
Some of the fracture zones in the western Pacific Ocean are associated with the smaller plate boundaries of the active back-arc basin spreading center of the North Fiji Basin being the Hunter Fracture Zone and North Fiji fracture zone. The Parece Vela Rift (Parece Vela Fracture Zone Province) is also associated with the back-arc basin of the ...
The Salton Trough is a result of crustal stretching and sinking caused by the combined actions of the San Andreas Fault and the East Pacific Rise, particularly the Gulf of California Rift Zone (GCRZ), the northernmost portion of the East Pacific Rise.
The NARS-Baja Seismic Array in the Gulf of California Rift Zone, Clayton, R. W., et al. (2004), Margins Newsletter; A Brief Review of Heat-Flow Studies in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, Chapter 33, Part VI, Hydrothermal Processes, K. Becker, A. T. Fisher, AAPG Special Volumes, Volume M 47: The Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias, Pages 709–720 (1991)
2 Gulf of California Rift Zone (GCRZ) 3 Yucatán. 4 Central Mexico. 5 Southern Mexico. ... List of seismic fault (and systems, zones) in Mexico Baja California Peninsula
The boundary along the Gulf of California is complex. The gulf is underlain by the Gulf of California Rift Zone, a series of rift basins and transform fault segments from the northern end of the East Pacific Rise in the mouth of the gulf to the San Andreas Fault system in the vicinity of the Salton Trough rift/Brawley seismic zone.
The Guaymas Basin is the largest marginal rift basin located in the Gulf of California.It made up of the northern and southern trough [1] and is linked to the Guaymas Fault to the north and the Carmen Fault to the south.