Offset of Late Mesozoic Basement Terrains by the San Andreas Fault System

Structure of the continental shelf west of San Francisco, California

“…The importance of the San Andreas fault as a major strike-slip feature is well documented from the field work of Gilbert(1908), Hill andDibblee(1953), and more recently in reviews by Crowell(1962), Dickinson and Grantz(1968), Suppe(1970), and others. In the San…”

Geologic and Tectonic History of the Gulf of California

“…This jump initiated rifting, which formed the deeper, volcanic-rock-floored southern borderland-an event suggested earlier by Suppe (1970). Crouch suggested that the rifting and attendant activation of a northwest-trending transform fault further inshore were the mechanism for juxtaposing paired "Great Valley" and "Franciscan" type belts of terranes in the Southern California Continental Borderland.…”

Tectonically controlled fan delta and submarine fan sedimentation of late Miocene age, southern Temblor Range, California

“…1). The Franciscan basement rocks probably evolved near a subduction zone that was later offset, in a right-lateral sense, along a tec tonically "softened" zone between the Pacific and the North American plates (Hamilton, 1969(Hamilton, , 1978Suppe, 1970;Atwater, 1970). The Salinian block was probably derived from between the Mojave block and the Penin sular Range in southern California (Hamilton, 1978;Dickinson, 1983;Ross, 1984) or from the west coast of Mexico and(or) Central America (Howell and others, 1980;Page, 1982).…”