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Filtering by: Creator Decker, Mary Beth Has journal sim Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

An Abrupt Transition in the Mechanical Response of the Upper Crust to Transpression along the Queen Charlotte Fault

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Tréhu, Anne M., Scheidhauer, Maren, Rohr, Kristin M. M., Tikoff, Basil, Walton, Maureen A. L., Gulick, Sean P. S., and Roland, Emily C.

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The Queen Charlotte Fault (QCF) is a major strike-slip fault that forms the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates from 51° to 58° N. Near 53.2° N, the angle of oblique convergence predicted by the Mid-Ocean Ridge VELocity (MORVEL) interplate pole of rotation decreases from >15° in the...

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the east that appears to strike parallel to the pri- mary strike-slip fault trace based on the