Scott Edmund Kelsey Bennett

The Gulf of California rift provides an example to test the role of rift obliquity in continental rupture. Continental rifts require focused strain to rupture and form an ocean basin. Strike-slips faults are ubiquitous in highly oblique rifts and focused transtensional strain adjacent to these faults may be a catalyst for rupture. To test this hypothesis, I completed structural mapping, fault kinematic analysis, geochronology, basin analysis, and...