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Late Miocene Extensional Deformation in the Sierra Bacha, Coastal Sonora, Mexico: Implications for the Kinematic Evolution of the Proto-Gulf of California

Darin, Michael Harrison (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

The Gulf of California is an active rift basin formed by late Cenozoic dextral-oblique extension along the Pacific-North America plate boundary. Well exposed volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the Sierra Bacha, coastal ...
Sedimentology and depositional history of the Miocene-Pliocene southern Bouse Formation, Arizona and California

O'Connell, Brennan (University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)

The Miocene to Pliocene southern Bouse Formation preserves a record of depositional environments immediately prior to and during integration of the Colorado River to the Gulf of California. Uncertainty over Bouse ...