The Gulf of California crustal structure: what we know and what we don't.

by Antonio Gonzalez-Fernandez
CICESE

3-4pm
Friday June 6, 2003
Refreshments served at 2:45pm
Munk Conference Room
Cecil and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
http://mahi.ucsd.edu/seminar/

Abstract

Recent and old surveys combine to provide some information about the
crustal structure of the Gulf of California. Most of our present knowledge
of the tectonic evolution of the area has been derived from bathymetry,
although other geophysical data sets complement the picture. Moreover,
certain areas have been intensely studied and others almost neglected.
There is also a mixture of shallow and deep investigations. In this talk
I will resume how the different data sets have provided clues that allow
to have an idea of the history of the opening of the Gulf of California.
However, many questions remain.